For Colored Girls (2010)
Storyline
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
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100
The effect is like watching an opera without music. Or a musical drama in which no one sings. These departures from a realistic convention never feel like static set pieces - that's the great success of the film and of the poems themselves.
88
Charlotte Observer
The writer-director waited until he had the clout, budget and prestige to attract a top-flight cast, then turned Colored Girls into a movie with a little less darkness but plenty of heart and guts.
75
Orlando Sentinel
Perry's great gift to this unfilmable play is getting it on the screen, his sharp eye for casting and his evident affection and sympathy for black womanhood, even in movies in which he doesn't don a dress.
65
Movieline
Perry weaves together not just the individual stories but their arcs, sustaining the emotional tenor across the progress of nine lives.
63
Perry tries to be faithful to the play and also to his own boldly and simply told stories, and the two styles don't fit together.
