Watching a black man in the shower
Michael Wood, 12 September 1991
Diary of a Young Soul Rebel
by Isaac Julien and Colin MacCabe.
BFI, 218 pp., £10.95, September 1991,0 85170 310 0 Show More
by Isaac Julien and Colin MacCabe.
BFI, 218 pp., £10.95, September 1991,
“... lit with a curious violet effect. An interviewer in Diary of a Young Soul Rebel thinks of David Lynch and Hitchcock in relation to this scene, and certainly those names evoke the right sort of frozen ceriness. But there is excitement in the shot, too – a sense of sexual adventure. The mood is lyrical rather than frightening, and it is into this mood that ... ”