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Like Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Jordan Peele (Get Out), Ryan Coogler, 38, is part of a young generation of African-American filmmakers focusing on reframing history from the perspective of their community. His approach involves adopting classic Hollywood genres (the Rocky saga and Marvel superheroes) to address racism in the United States and give a voice to minorities.

Following the successes of Creed (2016) and the two Black Panther films (2018 and 2022), his fifth feature film, rich and generous, exudes an energy that sweeps everything away, even in its imperfections. Once again, Coogler ventures into the realm of grand spectacle with genuine aesthetic ambition to tell the deep-rooted pain of the southern US. A hybrid work that is both a musical and a vampire film, Sinners was shot on 65 and 70 mm film to be viewed in IMAX on the biggest screen.

The plot unfolds in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, during the era of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation. In a society where the Ku Klux Klan seeks to impose an order once assured by former landowners, twins Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan in a dual role, the director's favorite actor, appearing in all his films) return to their hometown in Louisiana.

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