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Pariah is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by Dee Rees. [3] It tells the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye), a 17-year-old Black teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Excellence in Cinematography Award.
Pariah: Directed by Dee Rees. With Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell. A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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- Drama
- Dee Rees
- 2012-10-31
Jul 2, 2012 · Pariah, my absolute favorite film of 2011, tackles that question. Written and directed by Dee Rees and produced by Nekisa Cooper, the powerful, award-winning Pariah tells the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye in an astounding performance), a 17-year-old black lesbian in Brooklyn.
Dec 25, 2011 · Dec. 23, 2011. EARLY in Dee Rees’s film “Pariah” it journeys into a Brooklyn strip club where scantily clad young black women gyrate to a sexy, foul-mouthed rap song. Lascivious customers leer,...
- Nelson George
- 5 min
Jun 11, 2021 · Pariah became part of the Criterion Collection in June, earning a special-edition release that includes a fresh Blu-ray, a program on the making of the film, and a cast reunion moderated by...
The film is an impressive debut for writer-director Dee Rees. It’s said to be somewhat autobiographical. It began as a 2007 short subject, was brought to maturity at a Sundance laboratory, and one of the film’s producers is Spike Lee, whose presence in Brooklyn must have been an inspiration for Rees.
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Jul 18, 2017 · Pariah features the spellbinding Adepero Udoye in her breakout role as Alike (pronounced ah-LEE-kay, though she’s also called just Lee), a 17-year-old girl who starts to explore her identity as a lesbian.
