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She has to choose the man over the perfect job or some other circumstance that brings her happiness or success. In most romantic dramas, a woman has to sacrifice something of herself. It is exhilarating and so terribly rare to see a woman choose herself, to see her recognize that she shouldn’t have to make such an impossible choice, and to see her believe that a man who is truly worthy of her would never demand such a choice of her.
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The screenplay makes it easy to root for both Monica and Quincy, and even though this movie is Monica’s story, Quincy is just as fully developed a character.Īs the movie unfolds, Quincy is the object of Monica’s romantic affection, but she doesn’t once choose him over her life’s passion. When his father falls from grace, Quincy is forced to question whether he actually wants to follow in his path, given that his father is not the man Quincy thought he was. His father may be a good parent, but he is a terrible husband, and Quincy is forced to see his mother relegated to supportive basketball wife and little else. Quincy, on the other hand, is trying to emulate his father, who is handsome, confident, talented, and famous. Monica is a daddy’s girl, and she struggles to connect with her mother because she cannot understand her choices, or imagine her life as fulfilling. Her mother stays home to raise her children, while her father supports the family by working in banking.
Monica’s parents are a traditional suburban couple. The movie is, in an elegant way, also a tale of two families. She also loves Quincy (Omar Epps), who loves basketball, too, as he tries to follow in the footsteps of his father, an NBA player. Monica (Sanaa Lathan), the young woman protagonist, loves basketball and pursues her dreams with ferocity. It is a tender chronicle of young love, but it’s also a coming-of-age story. What brings me back to Love & Basketball, time and again, is how complete and satisfying a story it tells. What might have been merely a familiar story in another director’s hands became so much more under Prince-Bythewood’s direction. A boy and a girl both love basketball and tolerate each other and then like each other and then fall in love and fall apart and eventually find their way back together, where they belong. A boy and a girl grow up next door to each other.
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We see the full intensity of this love in Love & Basketball, her first feature film, which is, at its heart, a passionate love letter to basketball and friendship and Black love and ambition. She allows us to be strong and vulnerable, powerful and hungry. She sees us as worthy of all good things. She sees us, as our best, imperfect selves. We see her love for Black people in the nuances of her writing and directing. She tells stories about us that matter, that are entertaining but with depth. She also demonstrated her range by directing the graphic-novel adaptation The Old Guard (2020) for Netflix.
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She started out as a writer on A Different World and is responsible for the screenplays and direction of The Secret Life of Bees (2008) and Beyond the Lights (2014), in addition to Love & Basketball, as well as for cocreating the 2017 limited series Shots Fired. Gina Prince-Bythewood loves Black people, and you can see that love reflected in her impressive body of work in both television and film. And I was reminded, yet again, of why this movie has captured audiences’ hearts and minds since its release in 2000. In the end, my worst fears did not come to pass. I wanted to have a dynamic conversation with Prince-Bythewood about her work, but I worried I would start babbling incoherent praise before I could formulate an interesting question. I wasn’t well versed in spending time with filmmakers and actors.
I was just a writer and college professor living in a small town in Indiana.
The weeks leading up to the event were fraught, to put it mildly. I have a bit of a phobia of public speaking, but more than that, I was nervous about meeting the film’s director. I was thrilled, and I immediately knew which movie I wanted to screen- Love & Basketball, written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Several years ago, writer and director Joey Soloway asked me if I wanted to participate in Girl on Girl, a film screening and conversation series curated by women, featuring women filmmakers.