To Sleep with Anger

Charles Burnett
,
US
,
1990
,
35mm
,
colour
,
101'

At first we seem to be in an acutely observed middle-class soap opera, witnessing the generational disputes between the family patriarch (Paul Butler) and his wife (Mary Alice), and their two married sons (Richard Brooks and Carl Lumbly) … Enter Harry (Danny Glover), a smiling charmer from the old days in the Deep South.... Is Harry in fact an evil spirit, setting a curse upon the house? … Glover, in what may be the best role of his film career, makes him an unforgettable trickster, both frightening and a little pathetic … a catalyst to explore the conflicting systems of belief — Christian, magical, materialistic — that collide throughout the movie.” — David Ansen, Newsweek

 

South Central Los Angeles: een zwart gezin kampt met generatieproblemen en staat op het punt uiteen te vallen, tot een vreemde man uit the deep South op bezoek komt, waarna de problemen van kwaad naar erger gaan.