Sinners / open-air film in Park Vande Walle

“Believe the hype: ‘Sinners’ with Michael B. Jordan is one of the most rousing, unique, and simply best films of the last year.” Humo ★★★★1/2 Tweelingbroers Stack and Smoke return after years of wandering to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta. In an attempt to leave their past behind, they transform a vacant building into a juke joint for the local black population. Their first night back will be one to never forget. ‘Sinners’ is described as a visually stunning, emotionally charged, and culturally relevant epic that breaks genre boundaries. Moreover, the film has a rock-solid soundtrack which is described by De Standaard as: “a godsend for blues music”, awarded five stars and the Oscar for Beste Originele Muziek. ‘Sinners’ is a genre film pur sang, in which plot, atmosphere, characters, and worldbuilding function at the highest level, and a rich social critique is not lacking. Not the supernatural threats that come lurking around the corner, but the oppression of the black population in the Verenigde Staten and the appropriation of blues music, is seen as the ultimate evil. “how delightful, how enchanting but also confronting it is to walk along with the tough brothers through that sultry, ancient, mystical American land, where gospel songs rise from wooden churches, where it is so hot that you constantly have to chase the flies from your nose, and where the skeletons in the blood-soaked earth remember the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan all too well.” Humo ★★★★ 1/2