I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda
The difference in scale is breathtaking: Rita’s inadequate skill set vs. Juliette’s holocaust. The difference in effect, not so much. Rather than draw gravitas from Rwanda’s vast trauma, Linden’s conceit reduces that trauma to nothing more than a neat little twist–a novel way for her characters to meet cute.
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Lance Stuart Baker is a good actor but too young for Simon. Especially early on, the character requires a physical and psychic paunchiness that Baker doesn’t manifest. Yetide Badaki is sweet and strong as Juliette, though she never summons the degree of fierceness that might have mitigated some of the script’s problems. When director Andrea J. Dymond tries to get some sexual energy going, nothing much happens.
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