Black Joy (1977)
- Directed by
- Anthony Simmons
- Genre
- blaxploitation film, hood film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Guyanese teenager moves to London expecting an easy life but quickly runs into trouble. He falls in with a smooth-talking con man from the Caribbean who drags him from one mishap to another.
lightheartedcomedicironicchaoticbittersweetstreetwiseearthyfast-paced
What happens
Black Joy is a 1977 British film directed by Anthony Simmons. The story of an immigrant country boy in Brixton, London. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a lightly ironic, British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Thomas stars as a Guyanese youth who is under the delusion that life will be easier for him in London. No sooner does Thomas set foot in England than he gets tangled up in one disaster after another. The catalyst for most of Our Hero's travails is "assimilated" Caribbean Norman Beaton, who plays a streetwise con artist. The film was adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali, who also wrote the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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