Zola: In the Shade Film Festival Review
Zola: Movie Review Cast: Taylour Page, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, Nicholas Braun Director: Janicza Bravo Based on a 2015 viral Tweet thread from Aziah "Zola" King and a Rolling Stone article, Janicza Bravo's screeching road crime black comedy about strippers is a slice of life straight from an embellished voice put through a prism of Sean Baker's Tangerine. Page is Zola, a stripper whose mission is to tell the audience "a story about how me and this bitch fell out" and whose pronouncement kicks off a rollercoaster ride through a weekend in Florida. No sooner has Zola met The Girlfriend Experience's Riley Keough's Stefani, she's rushed headlong into a chance to make some serious money as a dancer in Florida. But as Zola heads down for what she hopes will be a weekend of fun, it soon transpires that Stefani's seeming pimp (Domingo) and clueless boyfriend Derrick (Braun) has other plans in mind for them. Soon, Zola is in over her head... With...