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A Patch of Blue (1965)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,81 62 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Guy Green

Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Hartman

IMDb score: 8,0 (10.170)

Releasedate: 10 December 1965

A Patch of Blue plot

"Love is color blind."

A black, professional man meets a white, blind woman in a park. She has never been given an explanation of how to deal with someone. He begins to explain to her what the city looks like and more and more often he hangs out with the blind woman. Her mother is convinced that every man only wants to sleep with her and that the man is black only makes it worse for her.

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BBarbie

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At the time of the Civil Rights Act, this film caused quite a stir in America, especially in the southern states. In the meantime, the sharpest edges of racial segregation have generally worn away, but it remains a fascinating film with appealing leading roles for Sidney Poitier and the debuting Elizabeth Hartman. Shelley Winters, as the irascible, foul-mouthed, vulgar “mother”, occasionally brings the necessary venom to the story, which would otherwise have been a bit too sweet. A somewhat dated but still entertaining film.

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mrklm

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Sidney Poitier plays the noble black man (again), but his character Gordon is a little too good to be true. The same goes for Selina, a blind (and white) young woman with a traumatic past, played by the debuting Elizabeth Hartman. With Shelley Winters as Selina's intolerant mother - a caricatured role that actually earned her an Oscar - the political message is very clear. That makes this much too tame film quite dated in 2019. Of course, the subject was still quite controversial in the '60s, but writer/director Guy Green seems to have tried a little too hard to avoid the controversy as much as possible.

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pjmj

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This sensitive drama, which includes discrimination as a theme, is another typical Sidney Poitier film.

What a "natural wisdom" this actor radiates here again. The very successful conversion of this black and white film on the recently released Blu-ray by Warner Brothers' Archive Collection made watching it an unforgettable experience for me.

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