Steve McQueen arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles on Dec. 5, 2018. NEW YORK -- In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" anthology is an unqualified main event. While many other filmmakers are on hold, the "12 Years a Slave" director has raced to finish not one but five new films.
The scope of McQueen's achievement has been gradually coming into focus during the New York Film Festival. As of Friday, three of the films will have bowed . All will play on the BBC and Amazon in November. For the filmmaker of "Hunger," "Shame" and "Widows," "Small Axe" is a shattering masterwork -- a compendium, both damning and celebratory, of Black resilience.
The films will run in a different order in November, but McQueen began by premiering "Lovers Rock" as the festival's opening night gala. The only fictional tale of the bunch, it brings to vivid, pulsating life a blues party from 1980, when young London Black people found refuge, and love, at house parties. The movie -- joyous and sensual -- is wall-to-wall reggae bliss.
Police brutality is more at the forefront in "Mangrove" and "Red, White and Blue." The title of "Mangrove" refers to a Notting Hill Caribbean restaurant run by Frank Crichlow . A proudly Caribbean community gathering place, police regularly harass its customers, spurring protests and leading to a historic trial.
"I would describe it in some ways as surviving the stench. That's what it is," says McQueen. "You have to transcend that environment. And often, as Black people, we do. You're limited so you invent things. You invent break dancing, you invent jazz. Inventing things from nothing, that's how you survive."
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