For Colored Girls

Already released over in the US, For Colored Girls is a film written and directed by Tyler Perry, adapted from the astounding award-winning play ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Isn’t Enuf’. The 36 year old play, written back in 1974 by Ntozake Shang, is about exploring life through the eyes of black women. It enjoyed highly acclaimed critical success and ‘excited, inspired and transformed’ audiences all over, evoking the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America.

I’m excited and intrigued to see how Perry has adapted this complex yet inspirational play for the big screen, but mostly due to it’s phenomenal casting. We’ll see Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine (Crash, Death at a Funeral), Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton (The Pursuit to Happiness, RockNRolla), Kerry Washington (Ray, Save The Last Dance), Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Macy Gray and that’s not even the whole cast! Each of these incredible actresses play women who are somehow all connected, yet each go through tough individual life struggles, revealing the different issues that impact women of ‘color.’
My worry is that these issues surrounding women and race are so vast and intricate that it may be difficult to illustrate on screen, but with such an epic cast and a soundtrack featuring the likes of Nina Simone, Leona Lewis, Estelle, Gladys Knight and more, it’s definitely more than enough to get my cinema ticket bought, I’ll just need to remember to bring a box of tissues…
For Colored Girls is releasing in the UK on the 10th December, take a look at the US trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA