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Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
Sara, a philosophy professor, and her painter husband, Duke, face marital crisis in a summer retreat. The film explores their different perspectives, desires and challenges in a low-budget and experimental style.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Kathleen Collins
- 1982-06
A philosophical drama about a married couple's relationship and identity crisis. The film explores themes of art, love, race, and feminism through the eyes of a liberal professor and her artist husband.
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- William Gunn
- Kathleen Collins
- Comedy, Drama
A 1982 film about a black couple's summer of personal and artistic awakenings. Losing Ground is one of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, and a landmark of independent cinema.
Mar 6, 2019 · Losing Ground is a 1982 film written and directed by a Black woman, Kathleen Collins, who explores the themes of marriage, art, identity, and race. The film depicts the crisis of a philosophy professor who questions her husband's infidelity and her own artistic potential.
- Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Apr 15, 2016 · Given its self-contained milieu, arty references and cerebral humor, “Losing Ground” is far closer to Eric Rohmer’s or Woody Allen’s contemporary brand of haute bourgeois comedy than to Spike...
Jul 16, 2015 · It’s the story of a middle-class black couple in New York—Sarah (Seret Scott), a young philosophy professor, and Victor (Bill Gunn), an older artist—whose careers shake the...
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