jan 1, 1975 - Horace Ové's, Pressure (1975).

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Widely regarded as the first black British feature film, Horace Ové’s gripping, neorealism-inspired drama focuses on the tribulations of school grad Tony (Herbert Norville), the British-born son of first generation Trinidadian immigrant parents who arrived in England in the 1950s. Facing the myriad pressures cited in the film’s reggae title track (parental, social, mental, ‘Babylon’ aka the police), the befuddled Tony floats through Ové’s film like a slow-motion pinball. He can’t get hired (he’s either shut out by racist employers or overqualified for menial labour); his potential romance with a friendly white girl is kiboshed by a hostile landlady; he’s ill-suited to the life of petty crime preferred by the group of ne’er-do-wells he falls in with; and his parents are stuck in their old ways.

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