Small Axe (A Body of Work): 2 Alex Wheatle
In the first page of our materials written for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology we considered Mangrove, the first of five films about the British black (mainly West Indian) community over a period from the 1960s to the 1980s. On this page, we turn our attention to the fourth (sic) film in the anthology, Alex Wheatle. Eponymously named, the film is a coming-of-age story, based on the life of the (real) writer, Alex...