He lights up in the first and last scenes and in nearly every scene in between.
I was shocked that Tanne lets us see what a heavy smoker Obama was. So what does he propose for a first date? They go to an Afrocentric art exhibit, a meeting in a local church where he'd spent time as a community organizer, and Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." - quite a slate. He'd spent much of his childhood with his white grandparents in Hawaii, while she was from a tight, working-class, South Side black family. The dramatic hook is that Barack and Michelle are from very different worlds. "Southside With You" plays as if the young writer-director, Richard Tanne, felt compelled to parse every word his characters say, which means they don't cut loose the way they do in fictional date movies, like Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight." But the movie's mix of romance and politics - both African-American and feminist politics - has a naive kind of charm. It's weird to see a biopic where the subjects aren't just still alive but still in the White House, where everything they say and do is freighted with politics.
But he asked her out so much, he wore her down. He says she was reluctant to go on an official date with him. Michelle Robinson was a second-year associate, a practicing attorney and his advisor. He just finished his first year at Harvard Law School and was a summer associate at a Chicago corporate law firm.
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Barack and Michelle Obama's first date in Chicago back in 1989 is the subject of a new movie called "Southside With You." Film critic David Edelstein has a review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: "Southside With You" is a dramatization of Barack and Michelle Obama's first date in 1989, which Obama wrote about briefly in his second book and has already become a piece of American folklore.
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