The Dutchman

Amiri Baraka's 1964 play, in which a white woman and a Black man meet on a New York subway car with deadly results, is one of the most charged works of American theatre. Andre Gaines' film reimagines it for the present, with André Holland and Kate Mara in the central roles and Zazie Beetz alongside them.

The play has been read for sixty years as a parable about desire, rage and the masks Black Americans are made to wear. This adaptation brings that confrontation into a new century, asking what has and hasn't changed.