Tyler Perry breathes new life into Ntozake Shange's unforgettable study of the struggles of black women. With an ensemble that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson and Loretta Devine, the emotions are raw, often brutally so, and transcendent.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
"For Colored Girls" is not easy. Its poetry is hot and searing, its story an unbroken current of rage and pain and sex and abuse and solidarity and self and empowerment. Nine women — in screams, whispers and weeping — demand that you listen, that you don't look away, that you deal with the discomfort as they did.
It is a film destined to polarize. Many will hate it. Hopefully more will love it, or at least allow room for it, for its raw brutality, its extremes, its difficult truths.
Filmmaker Tyler Perry takes us into this heart of darkness with his remarkable adaptation of Ntozake Shange's series of poems, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," first published in 1975. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (5835 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 novembre 2010
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