Chiaroscuro': a remarkable and elegant Netflix film with great performances by Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga

 Seen for the first time at the last Sundance Festival and acquired shortly thereafter by Netflix, 'Claroscuro' is one of the platform's great bets for the next Oscars, but also the debut feature by Rebecca Hall , an actress who does very little He showed us what he was capable of with his wonderful performance on 'The Night House' , which debuts on streaming this Wednesday , November 10 .

For her first film as a director and screenwriter, Hall drew on Nella Larsen's novel of the same name, first published in 1929, motivated in part by the true story of one of her grandparents, an African-American who posed as white for most of the time. part of his life. Obviously, the racial issue has a lot of weight in 'Chiaroscuro', but it is not the only stimulus of this remarkable film starring a great Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga .

Fooling the world or themselves?

'Claroscuro' starts with the reunion of two old friends who had lost contact a long time ago, but where the events take place is almost more important than anything else, since Irene (Thompson) is in a place where she feels very uncomfortable , as if it were an intruder in a place to which it does not belong.

That is something that Hall underlines by highlighting that feeling of discomfort, not taking long to discover that it is because she is a black woman in a place where people of color are not well received. Her restlessness does not stop growing, first influencing her attempts to go unnoticed , as if she wanted to pass herself off as a white woman, until someone recognizes her.

From then on, 'Claroscuro' is a film in which the contrast will be vital at all levels , both for the way of life that its two protagonists choose and for other details such as the fact that the story starts in a hot summer day and conclude on a cold winter night.

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