Inside the virtual vote from the L.A. Film Critics, in which Amazon’s anthology film series ‘Small Axe’ took best picture of 2020.What sets “Small Axe” apart is its ability to mine humanity and empathy from the smallest details: There’s the graceful swirl of smoke off the hand-rolled cigarette of a troubled soul.
The series captures a slice of life seldom seen onscreen, that of first-generation immigrants from former British colonies such as Trinidad and Guyana, Jamaica and Grenada, which gained their independence during the decades depicted in “Small Axe.
McQueen was born in 1969 to Caribbean parents and much of “Small Axe” feels like a memory in the best sense. The director, whose “12 Years a Slave” won the 2014 Oscar for best picture, pulls from his own childhood, the stories of others, historical events and imagined characters to create the series’ vision of West Indies London. “Mangrove” tracks the true stories of the defendants in a case against the police.
The re-creation of long-gone communities in Notting Hill and Brixton, before housing booms and gentrification, is perhaps one of the more impressive feats in “Small Axe.” They look and feel as they might well have back then, the sounds of reggae, ska, dub and pop mixing with the sounds of men gathering at a local club and women chatting at the corner store.
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