Apr 8th 2024

Bill Gunn: Personal Problems (1980)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Monday, April 8th, at 7PM

Personal Problems (1980)
Bill Gunn · 165m · DCP

Partly improvised and partly written by poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, Personal Problems is an experimental melodrama that captures the lives of Black Americans in 1980s Harlem. The film focuses on Johnnie Mae Brown (Vertamae Smart Grosvenor), a nurse who grapples with her husband’s infidelity and the personal and familial drama that ensues.

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