This film will be preceded by a short intro from a/perture curator Jake Laystrom, providing context and history behind the film.

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city’s black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

“‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ explicitly confronts the racialized implications of classic noir’s dichotomy between polite society and dark, shadowy underworlds. Its social critique is brutally honest and sharply targeted; race is both the organizing principle of its power structure and its central mystery.” ~ Julian Kimble, The Criterion Collection

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