Love & Basketball (2000)
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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Themes of creative identity, mental heath, sexism in the music industry, romantic partnership and family pressure take center stage in this hidden gem of a movie from "Love & Basketball" director Gina Prince-Bythewood.
Charlize Theron is an immortal mercenary with an axe to grind in The Old Guard , a brutally violent sci-fi/fantasy/espionage thriller from the director of Love & Basketball and Beyond the Lights (no, really!).
Prince-Bythewood is a good director, as evidenced by previous work like “Love & Basketball” and “Beyond the Lights,” so it’s a pity that she’s saddled with such a rotten script and lackadaisical stunt coordination.
Theron and Netflix put a woman behind the camera, Gina Prince-Bythewood, who hasn’t had the sort of career opportunities a debut like “Love & Basketball” should have given her.
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Love & Basketball”) attempts plenty of character development despite the genre trappings.
Prince-Bythewood is the other kind: in the years since her marvelous debut, the 2000 Love & Basketball, she has made only two features, The Secret Life of Bees (2008) and Beyond the Lights (2014).
La directora Gina Prince-Bythewood ( Love & Basketball , Beyond the Lights ) dirige esta película de acción basada en la serie de novelas gráficas de 2017 de Greg Rucka y el ilustrador argentino Leandro Fernández.