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Hop Film: The Color Purple

The musical adaptation of Alice Walker's landmark novel about love and sisterhood finally arrives on the big screen, starring Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson.

Saturday, February 17, 2024
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

The musical adaptation of Alice Walker's landmark novel about love and sisterhood finally arrives on the big screen, starring Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson.

Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the abuse and ascendancy of Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s. This revered story was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film and a crowd-pleasing Broadway musical. Here, a bold new take delivers a movie musical with show-stopping set pieces, forays into fantasy and a powerhouse cast: Broadway alums as well as Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson and Halle Bailey. 

Ghanaian filmmaker Blitz Bazawule (The Burial of Kojo) introduces magical realism as an instrument to explore Celie's imagination. Color Purple 2.0 deliberately escapes into sporadic joy with its musical numbers, which allow the viewer to track Celie's emotional journey without being overwhelmed by her horrific traumas. Bazawule explains, "They used humor, laughter, music, imagination and the beauty of the land. Everything we were pulling up to bring levity to this story was already there in Celie's world." 

Closed Captioned.

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
603 646 2422
Permanent URL to this event: https://aaas.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=72424

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