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Passing<\/em>, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga looks like a winner. I won’t let it pass me by!<\/p>\n A cornerstone work of Harlem Renaissance literature, Nella Larsen\u2019s 1929 novel Passing<\/span> is adapted to the screen with exquisite craft and skill by writer-director Rebecca Hall, who envelops the viewer in a bygone period that remains tragically present. The film\u2019s extraordinary anchors are Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, meticulous as middle-class Irene and Clare, reacquainted childhood friends whose lives have taken divergent paths. Clare has decided to \u201cpass\u201d as white to maintain her social standing, even hiding her identity from her racist white husband, John (Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd); Irene, on the other hand, is married to a prominent Black doctor, Brian (Andr\u00e9 Holland), who is initially horrified at Clare\u2019s choices. As the film progresses, and resentments and latent attractions bristle, Hall creates an increasingly claustrophobic world both constructed and destabilized by racism, identity performance, and sexual frustration, leading to a shocking conclusion. A Netflix release.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n