'The 40-Year-Old Version': Film Review – 'The gestation may have been long, but [in RadhaMUSprime] a star is born!' says AskDebruge
,” it’s been more than a decade since the Harlem-based playwright earned a promising “30 Under 30” award, and now, instead of getting her work produced, she’s teaching drama to half a dozen high school students. Tastemakers are constantly looking for the hot new thing, but all these years later, where they once spotted potential in Radha, her momentum appears to have stalled.
Maybe “the moment” — an industry-wide reassessment, by which #OscarsSoWhite begat @StrongBlackLead and other overdue opportunities for creators of color — is making things just a little bit easier for underrepresented voices to break through barriers of racism and sexism, but that’s not necessarily Blank’s point. You have to locate your own courage before you can encourage others, and “
Amid such temptation, Radha’s reminded of what motivated her back in high school: beating out beats on the cafeteria table, rhyming, rapping. In an uncharacteristic burst of self-confidence, Radha reaches out to a Brownsville DJ named D about producing her mix tape.
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