Alma's Rainbow

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Alma's Rainbow

Released Jul 29, 2022

1h 25m

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Alma's Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira's feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home. When Alma's free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the "proper" direction Rainbow's life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life -- and love -- fully and joyfully. Alma's Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women's world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency

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Marina Ashioti

Little White Lies

A lovely, tactile film with such a nuanced depiction of the ever-shifting tides of mother/daughter dynamics, overflowing with love and care as much as it is with a vibrant colour palette and gorgeous textures.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 7, 2024

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

The fact that historically so few films have been made about the inner lives of black women gives Alma’s Rainbow a precious quality, and the feeling that it’s a gem to treasure.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 30, 2024

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Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

What Alma's Rainbow lacks in shapeliness of script, it makes up for in the common sense and uncommon humor of its principals.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 10, 2023

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Ellen E Jones

Observer (UK)

Alma’s Rainbow has matured into a worthwhile watch, with appropriately colourful costumes, a curvy jazz score and plenty of hard-won womanly wisdom to impart.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 5, 2024

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

At once personal and universally relatable.

Feb 12, 2024

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

That, no matter the era, humans have always had dreams, felt misunderstood by their parents, and tried their best to make sense of this indescribable world. Alma’s Rainbow is timeless.

Jul 24, 2023

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Pareoranga T

theatre, dance and music, captivating soulful voice, entertaining and adventurous. Love the riddle and rhyme, conversations, lots of thrills with a positive mood.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/08/24

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Audience Member

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 25 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Alma's Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira's feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home. When Alma's free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the "proper" direction Rainbow's life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life -- and love -- fully and joyfully. Alma's Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women's world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency

Director: Ayoka Chenzira
Producer: Ayoka Chenzira, Howard Brickner, Charles Lane
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Red Carnelian Films, Paradise Plum
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 29, 2022, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jul 29, 2022
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 29, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.6K
Runtime: 1h 25m

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