A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends being scattered to the wind.
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| The GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiResidue is a fleeting and haunting lament for what is lost to gentrification, and other tolls on black life in America. But at the same, it’s exhilarating and monumental, laced with the sensation that we’re discovering a bold and sensitive new voice. |
| Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpResidue is about colonization, and through the creative choices he makes, Gerima suggests that colonization stories don’t actually have to be about the colonizers themselves. Instead, he maintains a personal touch over the picture and the narrative, about a homecoming that goes slowly awry over the course of a 90 minute duration. |
| Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsResidue is the kind of movie to make you wonder what may have changed in D.C. during even the short span of its own making. Gentrification works quickly; it arrives buoyed by a whirlwind sense of the rug being swept from under residents’ feet. These are details Gerima builds into the movie based on his experience of leaving for just one year. Jay is returning after time in college. One can only imagine his shock. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyGerima’s challenging, engrossing filmmaking style is measured, simultaneously realistic and impressionistic. What’s out of the frame is often as important, if not more important, than what’s in the frame. |
| Film ThreatMalik AdanResidue is a delicately balanced film that lands its points while exploring these conversations from angles that are often unseen. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe bleak outlook of this story won’t be to every taste. But Residue brings a painful beauty to a real-life “whitewashing” of a city that will never let you look at gentrification from a realtor’s point of view ever again. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayResidue is a delicately layered depiction of the dance between alienation and belonging. In this moving portrait, it’s a dance is defined by struggle, grief and undiminished grace. |
| RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonBut the true strength of Residue is in its images. Gerima finds a poetic grace in his framing while forcing you to focus on unexpected things. |
| The Film StageMatt CipollaA collage of distant memories and the realities that threaten them, Residue is an auspicious calling card for its filmmaker. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyGerima films Jay’s intimate confrontations with an impressionistic flair that focusses attention on characters’ listening, thinking, and remembering; flashbacks and dream sequences infuse Jay’s tightening conflicts with the pressure of history—both social and intimate. |
