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.
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A fugitive film director in exile, called H, returns to the industrial city of which he fled in the past, in a time and place unknown. Gloria, the working woman who loved and left behind lives subjected to routine. But H, unable to adapt, convince her to run away together to a place that no one remembers the outside of civilization.
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A fugitive film director in exile, called H, returns to the industrial city of which he fled in the past, in a time and place unknown. Gloria, the working woman who loved and left behind lives subjected to routine. But H, unable to adapt, convince her to run away together to a place that no one remembers the outside of civilization.
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Runtime:99 minutes
Studio:El Dedo en el Ojo
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