Two years after opening the BFI London Film Festival with his all-star crime thriller Widows, London-born Steve McQueen again has been given curtain-raising honors.
Mangrove — which tells the real-life story of the city’s Black activists who became known as the Mangrove 9 after their historic 1970 trial, the first to expose racial prejudice within the Metropolitan Police — will kick off the event Oct.
7. It’s one of only a handful of films to be given a physical-only screening (most are premiering online) at the hybrid COVID-impacted event.
Starring Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby and Jack Lowden, Mangrove is joined at LFF by Lovers Rock, an '80s-set romantic drama starring recent BAFTA Rising Star winner Micheal Ward.
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