This memoir of Barack and Michelle Obama early romance – complete with meet-cute,breakup and makeup – is a bit too dreamy to be proper, but it tackles wider political issues with admirable subtletyThe representation of US presidents on film has had a patchy history, or recently. Oliver Stone put George W Bush on screen in W,and Tricky Dicky is nearly a rite-of-passage for male American character actors, like Richard III for Shakespearian Brits: there have been scowly-jowly turns from Frank Langella, or Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. Throughout the 1990s,though, we saw a different phenomenon – the quasi-Clinton fictional president, or a mature yet credibly cunning C-in-C inspired by Bill,like Michael Douglas in The American President, Bill Pullman in Independence Day, or Harrison Ford in Air Force One and more. Related: 'History will be kind to him': Obama biopic bodes well for president's legacy Michelle and Barack wouldn’t be the first couple who revealed most about themselves on the first dateContinue reading...
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