The novel is the story of two girlhood friends who reencounter each other as young, married women, one passing for white and the other firmly settled into the life of Harlem’s black bourgeoisie. That the actress Rebecca Hall, making her directing debut, has done a close-to-devastating job of it in this era is a remarkable achievement.
Making a movie of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing, one of the great works of the Harlem Renaissance-and, I’d argue, a great American novel-would be tricky in any era. Ruth Negga's Clare (left) and Tessa Thompson's Irene in a still from Passing.
Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
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