"The United States Vs. Billie Holiday" Dilutes Lady Day
An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.

María de los Ángeles (Marita) Verón lived in Tucumán, Argentina. She came from a middle class family, she was another girl in the Tucuman society. On April 3, 2002, she was abducted in the corner of her house. Three days after disappearing, Marita was seen at 30 km with high heels, she staggered like a drugged woman. A prostitute told that she passed through the hands of a pimp. Since then, it does not appear.
An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.
When Juana tries real sushi for the first time, she is immediatley smitten by it and discovers a passion she never knew she had.
Two Korean sisters must save their family after a ghost tears the family apart.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
Rules are nowhere to be seen in the harsh unfiltered reality of ‘Fair Play.’
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of being one of the critics having the opportunity to watch and review several films from writer/director/producer Marcellus Cox, whose efforts are never anything less but grounded, relevant, and steeped in unflinching glimpses illustrating the gripping, inspired, and ever-vacillating realms that make up the human condition.