"Pariah" is an unflinching, unvarnished look at a teenager, Alike, living at home in Brooklyn, a good student with a talent for poetry, who faces emotional thrills and pains with her friends and her family, as she embraces her identity as a lesbian. The focus of the film is close in and intimate, almost claustrophobic, as we see the differing reactions of those closest to her. The films rings with truth, and the performances, especially that of Adepero Oduye as Alike, are outstanding. Director/Writer Dee Rees, who expanded an earlier short subject into this full-length feature, deserves high praise for her honesty, talent, and skill in bringing us this engaging and moving work.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Pariah ****
"Pariah" is an unflinching, unvarnished look at a teenager, Alike, living at home in Brooklyn, a good student with a talent for poetry, who faces emotional thrills and pains with her friends and her family, as she embraces her identity as a lesbian. The focus of the film is close in and intimate, almost claustrophobic, as we see the differing reactions of those closest to her. The films rings with truth, and the performances, especially that of Adepero Oduye as Alike, are outstanding. Director/Writer Dee Rees, who expanded an earlier short subject into this full-length feature, deserves high praise for her honesty, talent, and skill in bringing us this engaging and moving work.
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