Movies with BM/WW Couples

qaz1 said:
Are we sure the brotha's with one of the women here? Either way he looks like the first to die lol
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Yeah seems unlikely to be very interesting from an IR aspect. It feels like they just met, this might be a first date but there doesn't seem likely to be time for any romance lol. She does look pretty worried when he falls off the jetski so maybe it's supposed to be a relationship there.
 
LucasBanner said:
Yeah seems unlikely to be very interesting from an IR aspect. It feels like they just met, this might be a first date but there doesn't seem likely to be time for any romance lol. She does look pretty worried when he falls off the jetski so maybe it's supposed to be a relationship there.
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I'd like to think anyone nearby would look worried upon seeing someone fall off a jet ski like he did lol. But I get your point :D
 
qaz1 said:
Are we sure the brotha's with one of the women here? Either way he looks like the first to die lol
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Looks like TUBI possibly produced it so they probably are a YA interracial couple as far as TUBI goes they always hit me with good recomendations based on my established viewing pattern.
 
daemonova said:

I know that this was posted earlier but this is a reminder that it's on Hulu now.

Ava is so adorable in this, almost made me forget that she was a Nazi on the second season of the Boys.

Almost.....

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darkcurry said:
Yeah I liked that movie. An underrated IR movie about bm/ww on this thread. I recommend people see it.
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I actually turned this one off...
...once I realized they were getting back together too soon. I knew the movie had to end with them broken up for good, since there was too much time left for them to be coupling up again. It was an obvious fakeout. I'm insisting on wwbm happy endings these days lol
I've never seen the ending but I know I'm right lol
 
darkcurry said:
Yeah I liked that movie. An underrated IR movie about bm/ww on this thread. I recommend people see it.
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I agree it was brilliant. Because it felt like a real relationship between two people that ended and both feeling its loss. Trying to figure out the complex aftermath. That was its my appeal go me. It was a mature and bittersweet examination of a couple going their separate ways knowing it was over but happy and thankful it happened. A good movie with an honest and heart felt ending
 
Henry Dubrios said:
I agree it was brilliant. Because it felt like a real relationship between two people that ended and both feeling its loss. Trying to figure out the complex aftermath. That was its my appeal go me. It was a mature and bittersweet examination of a couple going their separate ways knowing it was over but happy and thankful it happened. A good movie with an honest and heart felt ending
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Fair enough. I see we like different stuff. But could you delete that thumbs down on my comment, my dude? People don't really do that around here
 
qaz1 said:
Fair enough. I see we like different stuff. But could you delete that thumbs down on my comment, my dude? People don't really do that around here
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Sincere apologies, J hit by accident trying to do rhe smiley face (lol) button thanks to the small letters on my new phone. Tried to press it again to undo and didn't work. Just found the undo function now.
 
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Henry Dubrios said:
Sincere apologies, J hit by accident trying to do rhe smiley face (lol) button thanks to the small letters on my new phone. Tried to press it again to undo and didn't work. Just found the undo function now.
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It's all good! Just gotta keep my clean streak going lol.

And for the record, I agree about the realism and relatability of We Broke Up. Thing is, I just don't have time for a bad time lately lol
 
qaz1 said:
I actually turned this one off...
...once I realized they were getting back together too soon. I knew the movie had to end with them broken up for good, since there was too much time left for them to be coupling up again. It was an obvious fakeout. I'm insisting on wwbm happy endings these days lol
I've never seen the ending but I know I'm right lol
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You're a bit of a pessimist aren't you? lol.
 
JamalSpunky said:

Nothing prepared for how much I surprisingly really enjoyed this movie. I know its been mentioned on this site somewhere before. I've known of its existence since the 2021 Cannes Film Festival but I was not certain it would ever reach a theater in my neck of the woods. Yet it did make it to one of my arthouse theaters and I caught it yesterday.

This is a beautiful film, shot almost exclusively in black-and-white by a highly regarded director. Its inhabited by complicated, charismatic characters with both great attributes and deep flaws. Its sexy and provocative in a way that French and other European movies tend to be, and American films hardly ever are. Its upfront with sexuality in a manner that American film shies away from because America is inherently puritanical. Its both a love triangle and ultimately a love story. Its unpredictable in the roads it takes which makes its final destination all the more rewarding.

And if it were simply just all those above things alone that would be reason enough for me to recommend this. But I am taking time to shout its praises because its use of the black male character is something sort of miraculous.

The black male is named Camille and he is played by Makita Samba. He is not only the primary male character he is pretty much the only male character of note. And he is in the mix of this love triangle between himself and two women (Emilie and Nora). And its not like the typical Hollywood studio love triangles, this one is not as straight forward because it takes all sort of clever detours. And in some ways you could describe it as a love story between four people because there is another semi-lead character. But Camille is the only man in these relationships.

Anyway the two actresses (Lucie Zhang and Noemie Merlant) whom share the screen with him are both beautiful and have tremendously sexy bodies. There is a lot of nakedness going on(especially with the women) and Camille is in the mix for almost all of those scenes. Yes, the black man gets hot love scenes. This guy may have more sex on screen in this one film than Denzel and Will have had in their combined careers. Hell, this guy is allowed to exude more healthy sexuality than all black actors in American films in total during the 2000s! And what this underlines is how this is not a film that could be made in America.

We correctly discuss the lack of pairing of black men with white women in film on this site, but we rarely go further than that to delve into how black male sexuality is kept under wraps in general in Hollywood. The reason why I wrote that this film could not be made in America is because America has historically been terrified about black male sexuality; its cooked into the DNA of this nation. Black men are rarely presented to be sexually desired in such stories, even when black filmmakers are at the helm. A Michael B Jordan may take off his shirt but its not like he is having sex onscreen. Nope, black men are essentially castrated in the sense that they are not portrayed as sexual beings, they are instead repeatedly directed towards the Sidney Poitier non-threatening (sexually) approach. But not in this movie. Camille, the black male lead, not only has sexual relations with his two leading ladies (and a third woman too who has a short runtime in the movie), but he is physically desired by women in the story. And not just by the ladies he sleep with but by supporting characters who have no relationship with him but who comment positively on his physical traits.

It is so rare for a black guy to get such a treatment in cinema. By the way it wasn't over the top; it was natural and felt organic. It is also rare for a HETERO black man to be part of an actual love triangle in which he alone is the only male. When was the last time we have seen that in film? Typically when a black man is part of a love triangle he is either one of two black men pursuing a black woman or he has a white male counterpart going after a black woman or non-black woman. But a story in which the black guy is a man drawn to two different ladies is so damn rare. Add on to the fact that in this case NEITHER of the two ladies are black and its pretty much groundbreaking in my opinion. Black American films can make a movie in which the black male romantic lead is at least desired as much as the black female lead but NEVER more desired than that black female lead. American filmmakers of any stripe can make a film in which a black guy is one or two men vying for the attentions of a women all the while making certain to not make the sexuality of that black guy overt. This film though fucking shatters the glass ceiling of what a black male romantic lead can be, how varied his options can be, how complicated and intelligent he can be. There are times he seems less interested in one character, there may be one woman who may not seem to want him as much as the other woman, there may be times it appears he is not going to end up with either one. However the story keeps unfolding in unpredictable ways.

Paris, 13th District puts all the films discussed in this thread to shame as far as I am concerned. Its not perfect. I give it about an 8 or an 8.5 out of 10. But oh it is soooo satisfying for so many different reasons.
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So finally got a chance to watch this and damn yeah never seen a Black Character like this in American Media. Smart, Suave, Desirable and a bit of a player bedding all shades of Women.
 
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