![]() ![]() Running around the city, she’s also on a reluctant farewell tour, taking an extra beat here and there to really absorb her surroundings - like stopping to gaze up wistfully at the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal. We meet her on the day before their scheduled deportation, as she rushes to a meeting at the immigration office and then, in desperation, to another “last shot” plea with a lawyer who has been known to do miracles. She considers New York her home, so much so that she’s decided to fight the system against all odds and to the last second, even though her parents are resigned to leaving. Shahidi plays Natasha Kingsley, a high school student whose family is facing imminent deportation to Jamaica. Melton, 31, and Wonders, 26, starred together in the short film Wake- which was written and directed by Wonders. ![]() And both parties involved in said romance have other things going on in their lives that are much more compelling than their love-at-first-sight. That makes it all the more frustrating, then, that the driving engine behind the film - a whirlwind 24-hour romance - is contrived, underwhelming and perhaps worst of all, unconvincing. Even the MTA is (kind of) beautiful.ĭirector Ry Russo-Young’s film is shot by cinematographer Autumn Durald with such precision it’s impossible not to get a little swoony over the fact that the filmmaker clearly did not phone it in for this adaptation of a popular young adult book. The TV stars Yara Shahidi of “grown-ish” and Charles Melton of “Riverdale” are beautiful. ![]() ‘The Sun Is Also a Star” is a beautiful looking film. ![]()
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