The loss of a beloved presence, and the absence, memory, gratitude, loneliness, and mourning that follow, the grief, form the delicate and touching subject of Ava DuVernay’s beautiful, intelligent, surprising small film I Will Follow (2011), starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Beverly Todd, Michole White, Omari Hardwick, Dijon Talton, Tracie Thoms, and Blair Underwood. When the aunt no longer wanted to submit to the aggressive medical treatment of her illness, the two, aunt and niece, came to the sun-soaked house surrounded by trees for the aunt’s last months. The aunt was a popular sessions drummer who liked and played different kinds of music, including rock, rhythm-and-blues, and disco and the niece was inspired by her aunt’s free spirit, something the aunt’s own daughter did not accept. It is possible to live going from wound to wound to wound, suffering but it is possible, as well, to live with ambition, intelligence, and joy and that last, a pursuit of independence and personal peace, is what the musician aunt and her make-up artist niece have in I Will Follow, before the aunt dies of cancer in their lovely, secluded Topanga Canyon home in Los Angeles. I Will Follow, directed by Ava DuVernay, Forward Movement/Image/AFFRM, 2011ĭiana Ross Live in Central Park, directed by Steve Binder, Anaid, 1983/Shout Factory, 2012 The Girl Rebel, the Glamorous Woman: Ava DuVernay’s film of a woman’s independence, love, loss, and memory, I Will Follow Everyone makes mistakes, but few are capable of greatnessīy Daniel Garrett Volume 17, issue 10 / October 2013 29 minutes (7062 words)
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