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American Fiction

1st October 2024

By Cord Jefferson
USA | 2023 | 1h 57’ | English | 15

Based on Erasure by Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and clichéd tropes. To prove his point, he writes an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

“By turns laugh-out-loud funny and quietly poignant while grounded by a deeply sympathetic turn from Jeffrey Wright.” Kevin Maher, Times

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