Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid

Studs Terkel: Did you feel a sense of shame about a heritage that is really so rich_, when you accepted the white man's stereotype of yourself?_

James Baldwin: _I'm afraid that is one of the great dile...

This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to d...