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Dud of the Week; 12 Years A Slave reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

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By Armond White Brutality, violence and misery get confused with history in 12 Years a Slave, British director Steve McQueen’s adaptation of the 1853 American slave narrative by Solomon Northup, […]

By Armond White Brutality, violence and misery get confused with history in 12 Years a Slave , British director Steve McQueen’s adaptation of the 1853 American slave narrative by Solomon Northup, who claims that in 1841, away from his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he was kidnapped and taken South where he was sold into hellish servitude and dehumanizing cruelty. For McQueen, cruelty is the juicy-arty part; it continues the filmmaker’s interest in sado-masochistic display, highlighted in his previous features Hunger and Shame . Brutality is McQueen’s forte. As with his fine-arts background, M

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