Green Week: 'Babylon'
A Humboldt Green Week event. Franco Rosso's incendiary dancehall reggae drama 'BABYLON' had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but has never been released in the U.S. for being "too controversial," UNTIL NOW! Raw and smoldering, it follows a young dancehall DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British reggae group Aswad) in South London as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. "An English cousin to the earlier Jamaica-set films 'THE HARDER THEY COME' and 'ROCKERS' that is vastly superior in cinematic terms and just as valuable as a cultural document." - Hollywood Reporter
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