Mitchell's Favorite Movies
Imitation of Life
Unrated
sarah jane desperately tried to alert pre-civil rights america to the idea of race being a social construct but she was just too far ahead of her time. the performance to watch here, though, is juanita moore's--i dare anyone to not respond to its beautiful economy
this version is much truer to the fanny hurst novel and the complexity of its narrative structure is much more in evidence here
