Dear White People

À la mise en scène, Simien fait montre d'assurance, privilégiant un ton sérieux malgré ses visées satiriques, et conférant à son film un rythme alerte, sans trop abuser des effets de style. 

Whether Simien drew on all or none of these influences, his vision seems to spring directly from what's up with his generation now.

The fun is nonstop, the cast is top-tier, and Simien is a talent to watch. What are you waiting for?

Simien intensifies the impact of both action and dialogue with a self-reflexive directorial style that creates a marginally heightened sense of reality, revealing more about characters' motivations than would conventionally be expected.

Le thème est délicat, mais le scénario évite pas mal de pièges et le réalisateur fait preuve d'un talent évident. L'ensemble est certes parfois un peu maladroit en raison de sa volonté de trop bien faire, mais reste toujours plaisant.

There are no easy heroes or foils in this briskly cross-cutting ensemble piece, only blossoming adults and beleagured elders (...). 

"Dear White People" is an empathetic exploration of both how difficult it is to navigate this paradoxical new world and the burden that "otherness" can inflict.

Dear White People and its director are the real deal. This is one of the best feature-filmmaking debuts of recent years. 

If it ultimately feels modestly edgy rather than shocking or dangerous, Dear White People nonetheless provokes admiration for having bothered to ask some of the hard questions without pretending to know any of the answers.

Vif, drôle et rempli de mots d'esprit, Dear White People débute et se termine sur des bulletins de nouvelles concernant le party d'Halloween de la fraternité blanche de Winchester, dont le thème est «visages noirs».