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‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ spotlights Bay Area gentrification in new trailer

By Ashley Lee
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A24 released on Thursday the trailer for its Sundance award-winning drama “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” which zooms in on rising gentrification in the Bay Area.

The crowd-pleasing film centers on Jimmie Fails, a man trying to hold on to a sense of home in a rapidly changing San Francisco by fixing up an intricate Victorian house.

Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Finn Wittrock, Rob Morgan and Mike Epps are also part of the cast of the Joe Talbot film, which hits theaters June 14.

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“The Last Black Man in San Francisco” won the directing and special jury awards at the Sundance Film Festival, where it made its world premiere in January.

The Times’ film critic Justin Chang explained that “the movie has an offbeat, meandering rhythm and a marvelous sense of possibility. … It’s a movie about how our worlds shape our identity and what it means to really love a city, even when the city doesn’t necessarily love you back.”

ashley.lee@latimes.com

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Ashley Lee

Ashley Lee is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes about theater, movies, television and the bustling intersection of the stage and the screen. An alum of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she leads workshops on arts journalism at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She was previously a New York-based editor at the Hollywood Reporter and has written for the Washington Post, Backstage and American Theatre, among others. She is currently working remotely alongside her dog, Oliver.

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