Film: Pressure

Thu Oct 24 , 7 – 9:15 pm

Hosted by Yale Film Archive
Details PRESSURE (Horace Ové, 1976, 35mm, 126 mins)
New print! The UK’s first Black feature-length drama stars Herbert Norville as a young Brit navigating life in Ladbroke Grove, not quite at home with either his Windrush-generation Trinidadian family or an unaccepting English establishment. PRESSURE has the punchy quality of a 21st-century graphic novel, eagerly tackling Black Power and social realism, mixing comedy, tragedy, and irony” (Peter Bradshaw). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

The Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow 70 M.Phil., 72 Ph.D.
Admission FREE
Location Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
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