Essential Cinema: The L.A. Rebellion

TO SLEEP WITH ANGER

Directed by Charles Burnett

USA, 1990, 1h 42min, DCP

Essential Cinema: The L.A. Rebellion

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“Stubbornly evocative … Burnett shows great care in how the camera lingers on small objects … there’s a distinctly poetic hand at work.”
—Screen Slate

For those who fall under the film’s spell, the rewards are magical.”
—Time Out

They say “if you keep knocking on the devil’s door, sooner or later someone will answer.” But what if the devil comes to you? Danny Glover is drifter Harry Mention, whose arrival from the South lays trouble squarely on the welcome mat of his old friends in South Central L.A.

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