An impressive first feature from Melvin Van Peebles has a black American soldier, Baird, stationed in France and visiting Paris on a three-day pass.
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
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France · 1968
1h 27m
Director Melvin Van Peebles
Starring Harry Baird, Nicole Berger, Pierre Doris, Christian Marin
Genre Drama, Romance
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One of the most vital and daring films of the civil rights era 60’s. Turner, a black American soldier is promoted by his captain and given a three-day pass. Turner travels to Paris where he meets Miriam in a nightclub and they strike up a romance, but Turner faces trouble for fraternizing with a white woman.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Just as Baird is sustained by his self-mockery, this tender and witty film is saved from sentimentality by its satirical edge. [19 Apr 1998, p.3]
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
It’s among the great American films of the sixties—including Juleen Compton’s Stranded and Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary—that display the global reach of that Paris-centered movement.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
A sad and funny examination of issues of racial subjugation, cultural stereotypes and sexual mores. Although some of its filmmaking techniques seem naive and anachronistic now, there is much that is bold, inventive and poignant about Van Peebles' feature debut. [09 Nov 1994, p.E01]
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