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Several Friends

Black Lives • 22m

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1969 • United States

Charles Burnett’s first film already displays the director’s neorealist, poetry-of-the-everyday style as it follows a group of friends over the course of an aimless day in Los Angeles.

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