#amma asante

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[in-love-with-movies]

Belle (2013)

[peggybrandt]

Sam Reid as John Davinier

Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante

[samreiddaily]

You are above reducing yourself for the sake of rank. I pray he would marry you without a penny to your name, for that is a man who would truly treasure you.

sam reid as john davinier in belle (2013) dir. amma asante

[burninglights]

I’m not saying I have a grudge against Amma Asante for making the world’s most milquetoast swirler romances. HOWEVER.

[imthefailedartist]

Reich of Love (2018)

Movies about black Germans during the Holocaust should be made, the history and stories need to be told. What those movies don't need to be is a black German girl falling in love with a nazi.

I understand it probably happened. And that needs to be discussed also. Stockholm Syndrome is a term for a reason. The desire to be wanted and to be seen as the same or equal exists. But those stories need to be told as such, not in some secret glances, meeting in the woods romance.

If we're telling this story I need to understand why a BLACK girl would risk her life for nazi peen. They need to show me how no matter how hard her mother tries to explain or understand what her daughter is going through it's just not enough. I need to see Leyna's mother trying and failing to de-program the antisemitic & racist nationalist education and propaganda her daughter is being fed daily. I need to see what stereotypes the racist Germans are perpetuating on to her that she doesn't fit and her not understanding why they think that and why and how she tried not to enact. I need to see her looking at a National Geographic African photo spread and wondering if she's from them or comparing herself to them. (Negative & Positive). They need to show me the isolation of being the only black person. I need to see her watching other girls hang out laughing and smiling while she sits alone fantasizing about having friends. I need to see her liking a boy and maybe he likes her but his friends appear and he disses her and joins in on their racist taunts. I need to see her talking about Germany as a 'We' and a teacher saying she is not a German. I need to feel the loneliness of this black girl to understand why this nazi boy is the person for whom she finds herself pining.

And even still after seeing and feeling all that desperation, loneliness, isolation, and desire to belong I still don't want to see this Black girl and nazi boy relationship romanticized.

I also understand there were Germans who joined the nazi military as a means for survival and safety. Those stories should probably be told. But I DO NOT need them to be intertwined in a Black German during the holocaust romance story.

People, including her friend, are being killed in the streets and she's worried about some pink nazi peen. Not even in a "I need him to survive" way.

Amma Asante needs help.

[bivampirical]

BELLE (2013) WAS DIRECTED BY THE SAME WOMAN WHO MADE THE AMANDLA STENBERG NAZI ROMANCE? DIE

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Based on the inspiring true story

[mycinematheque]

[spending-life-pretending]

Sometimes I think about Belle (2013) and I want to chew glass

[bazwillendinflames]

you've watched belle 2013????

we had to watch it in history and its so good omg

Yes! I had to watch it as part of my one of my film course and it’s the one I wrote my essay about! (Which was about self-image and subaltern identities in historical film)

Belle is such a good film, very underrated. The fact it’s an own voice film really shows and there’s a lot of well explored conflict between class, race and gender identity. The romance was good too, enemies to lovers and they both learn and grow from each other.

It’s a shame more people don’t bring it up in terms of historical romance films. There’s the political plotline too (based on real historical events) but it’s a really underrated film. Would recommend it tbh!

Guess I rambled a lot. What can I say, never ask a bitch with letterboxd her opinion on a film.

[maurawrites]

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante

[fujikoi]

Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante

[burninglights]

a united kingdom dir. amma asante my beloathed

[peggybrandt]

Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante