She adapted Nella Larsen's novel in a way that is largely a series of dialogue scenes - a filmed play. The crucial scene at the end is annoyingly fluffed so we don't actually know what happened.
Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga (Loving, Breakfast on Pluto), André Holland (Moonlight, The Eddy).
Quite obscure - is she a drug addict? Emphatic sound track.
Photographed in 4x3 by Edu Grau.
The 'Drayton Hotel' exterior is the Center for Brooklyn History, and the interior is the Prospect Park Boat House. They also filmed for real inside the Harlem brownstone. Info here.
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