IMDb plot summary: A black woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice.
Directed by Kenneth MacPherson. Starring Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, and Hilda Doolittle.
Borderline is a 1930 avant-garde film exploring the issue of interracial relationships. For many years it was considered lost but a copy was apparently discovered in Switzerland by accident in 1983. It's definitely a very interesting piece of cinema history and probably worth the watch just for that reason alone. That being said, it's not particularly one that I would watch out of narrative interest or outside of its context in the history of film. It's deliberately disjointed and dreamlike, which is a style that holds very little interest for me no matter how it is used, and I have to assume that in alienating me it is functioning exactly the way that it wants to. There are certainly many striking visuals here, and the soundtrack that was accompanying it in the version I saw absolutely lends itself to the frustrated chaos of the characters. If any of this sounds interesting to you, it's almost certainly one that you should try to find and check out. If it doesn't, it's probably not going to surprise you by being something it's not.
How it entered my Flickchrt:
Borderline < The Anderson Tapes
Borderline > Little Lord Fauntleroy
Borderline < Adam
Borderline < Paint Your Wagon
Borderline > Gozu
Borderline < King Kong (1933)
Borderline < Two for the Money
Borderline < Lovelace
Borderline < Luther
Borderline > Captain America: Civil War
Borderline > 12 Days of Terror
Borderline > Dear Evan Hansen
Final spot: #2727 out of 3804, or 28%.
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