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Film My Brother's Wedding (1983)

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Last year was good to Charles Burnett, as the under-appreciated African-American filmmaker's debut feature, 1977's Killer of Sheep, toured to universal acclaim. The director's sophomore film, My Brother's Wedding, was buried after a lackluster response to a rushed version at the New York Film Festival. The PFA now presents the director's cut of the film. As quietly poetic and resolutely unprofessional as its predecessor, My Brother's Wedding tracks a good-natured man (Everett Silas) working at his family's dry-cleaning business in Watts, torn between upward mobility and his friend's streetwise lifestyle. Burnett doesn't offer judgment on the situation, instead using a more descriptive style in line with his Italian neo-realist influences.

– Max Goldberg

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