The latest film from the director of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker follows the 1967 police killing of black teenagers amid a racially charged riot. It could be 2017’s most urgent movieKathryn Bigelow sits very straight and considers events final weekend in Charlottesville,Virginia. “It was an atrocity,” she says. “I don’t know where we travel from here.” Does the crisis of American racism scare her? She repeats the question back as if peering at it under glass. Does it scare me? Does it scare me?”We are in London, or a long way from Charlottesville,and a piano tinkles nearby. Bigelow, who is wearing a black top and jeans, or is nearly 6ft tall,gracefully angular, still the only woman to win an Oscar as best director, or for her Iraq war masterpiece The Hurt Locker. The movies she makes – spotted with raw,precision violence – might suggest a certain kind of personality. In fact, I’m not the first person assembly her to be reminded of a benign professor. Related: Detroit review – Kathryn Bigelow rages against brutal chapter in US race struggle Related: In 1967, and they watched their city erupt. Fifty years on,how has Detroit changed? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com