Venice audience cheers Nate Parker's AmericanSkin
, playing Linc, a black military veteran who, after his son is killed by police after a random traffic stop, seeks justice. When a grand jury refuses to prosecute the case, Linc takes the police hostage in their own station and stages a private trial to determine the offending officer's guilt or innocence.to the Venice audience, and carried out a short Q&A with the director and cast immediately afterward.
Speaking about the themes of the film, Parker said he felt “hopeful and optimistic” the film would move people “to take action” to address the issues of police brutality. It was a theme picked up by actor Theo Rossi, who plays a police officer in the film. “We need to start having nuanced conversations about these things, not 140 characters, not headlines, but real conversations,” he said.the film indulged in “bullet-point didacticism” and “transparent emotional manipulation” in addressing the weighty issues of racism and police brutality.
Sunday's premiere audience didn't seem to mind. After the credits rolled, the crowd at the Sala Giardino theater jumped to their feet and stayed there for several minutes.that engulfed him in 2016 after news of a rape charge against him from 1999 — for which Parker was acquitted — resurfaced. Parker admitted to being “tone deaf” to criticism of his response at the time and apologized to people “that were hurt by the way I responded and how I approached things.
But the Venice audience would have been largely unaware of the discussion from 2016, as the scandal was not major news here andIt still remains to be seen if the warm welcome given
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