The lives and loves of two generations of artistic black women, Alma's Rainbow is a charming indie that acts as a coming of age for Rainbow, but is provides a substantial arc for her mother Alma. The latter needs to learn to accept others for who they are, and forgive herself for perhaps betraying who she used to be. The former has high hopes, and youthful impatience, but no real direction, at least not from the uptight mother she doesn't think she has anything in common with. Cue Alma's sister Ruby, a doubtful "star" to act as surrogate mother figure and throw their worlds into chaos. In a way, the older women are what Rain COULD become, depending on the path she takes, but surprisingly, the sister who stayed home isn't the one in arrested development. Director Ayoka Chenzira crafts a lot of nice moments throughout, though I sort of wanted the soundtrack to have more of an impact on the three musical women. The sisters are evidently tracked with jazz, but Rainbow is all hip-hop. It works as a simple generation gap, but I didn't otherwise feel it.
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The lives and loves of two generations of artistic black women, Alma's Rainbow is a charming indie that acts as a coming of age for Rainbow, but is provides a substantial arc for her mother Alma. The latter needs to learn to accept others for who they are, and forgive herself for perhaps betraying who she used to be. The former has high hopes, and youthful impatience, but no real direction, at least not from the uptight mother she doesn't think she has anything in common with. Cue Alma's sister Ruby, a doubtful "star" to act as surrogate mother figure and throw their worlds into chaos. In a way, the older women are what Rain COULD become, depending on the path she takes, but surprisingly, the sister who stayed home isn't the one in arrested development. Director Ayoka Chenzira crafts a lot of nice moments throughout, though I sort of wanted the soundtrack to have more of an impact on the three musical women. The sisters are evidently tracked with jazz, but Rainbow is all hip-hop. It works as a simple generation gap, but I didn't otherwise feel it.nbats
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