Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Directed by Terence Dixon • 1970 • France, United Kingdom
Starring James Baldwin, Terence Dixon

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmark and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.

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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
  • Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    Directed by Terence Dixon • 1970 • France, United Kingdom
    Starring James Baldwin, Terence Dixon

    In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, ...