Full Review Original Score: 3. Nevertheless, they continue on and share their experiences with a surprising amount of honesty before heading off to the community meeting. Southside With You is a warm little film, a sweet parting gift to the President and his First Lady and to the country as his era comes to a close. One of the biggest pleasures of this romantic drama is watching two conversational and intellectual heavyweights go toe-to-toe on their first date (or rather. It’s a curious conceit for a movie less because as dates go. 6. She angrily admonishes him for not being truthful with him and explains that, both as a woman and a person of colour, it's doubly hard for her to be taken seriously in the law firm in which they work. Sweet, slight and thuddingly sincere, Southside With You is a fictional re-creation of Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date. The two are due to head over to a community meeting and Obama, somewhat deviously, tells Robinson that it isn't for another few hours and hopes to endear himself to her. In other words, how can they honestly make a film out of it? Is it going to be interesting enough to keep anyone's interest, outside of politicos? Nevertheless, Southside With You offers a look into the personal life of the world's most powerful couple in a time when they were anything but.īarack Obama (Sawyers) is a summer intern at a prestigious law firm in Chicago, whose taken an interest in his adviser, Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter). With a subject like the first date of Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, it's easy to be immediately dismissive. Films glorifying sitting leaders is a little more. Before they were the President and First Lady, Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) were two twenty-somethings working in a prestigious law firm who went on a first "not a date" in their native Chicago. To quote the 43 rd President of the United States, let me be clear: there’s something admittedly odd about Southside For You’s very existence.
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