James Baldwin Arrives In Paris In Trailer for Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, Opening This July

My favorite discovery back at the 2024 New York Film Festival was Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, a jazzy, French New Wave-esque portrait imagining James Baldwin’s (Benny O. Arthur) arrival in Paris in November 1948. With a plethora of biographical dramas seemingly rinsing and repeating key moments of a famous subject’s life in a formally familiar fashion, […] The post James Baldwin Arrives In Paris In Trailer for Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, Opening This July first appeared on The Film Stage.