Devil in a Blue Dress
Carl Franklin / US, 1995 / 102 min.
Denzel Washington plays private eye Easy Rawlins in late-1940’s Los Angeles. His assignment? To find Daphne Moret, the mayoral candidate’s mistress who is in hiding. Carl Franklin’s atmospheric neo-noir is situated in the Afro-American community in a segregated LA.
Easy Rawlins has nothing in common with your run-of-the-mill hardboiled private eye. However, when he is fired from the aircraft manufacturing plant and still has to cough up his mortgage, his options are limited. A mysterious man approaches Rawlins with an offer he can’t resist: 100 dollars if he can find Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals) who is supposedly lying low in LA’s African American nightlife district.
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Director
Carl Franklin
Production year
1995
Country
US
Original title
Devil in a Blue Dress
Length
102 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE or NLD
Format
DCP
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