The learning tree, a film by Gordon Parks
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The learning tree, a film by Gordon Parks
Language
eng
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Main title
The learning tree
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1277081326
Responsibility statement
a film by Gordon Parks
Runtime
107
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1107
Summary
Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers nostalgia with an incisive understanding of the harsh realities, hard-won lessons, and often wrenching moral choices that shape the road to self-determination of the young Black man at its center
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live action
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