Reflecting on 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.

The film, through experimental storytelling techniques, penetrates the psychic world of two people who are trying to heal their broken relationship. Condemned to run futilely and endlessly on a black and white split screen, atonement and reconnection are transformed more and more into an elusive dream.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
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