The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Acting
Non-actors improvising with devastating authenticity.
Direction
Cassavetes' handheld chaos births American independent cinema.
Sound
Charles Mingus score bleeds through every scene.
Director
John Cassavetes
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