A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Looking for Langston has generally received mixed reviews.
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Looking for Langston was released in 1989 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving Looking for Langston (1989) an average rating of 54%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 60% and users giving an average score of 60%.
With a score of 54%, Looking for Langston is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1989 with similar scores include films like Turner & Hooch, She-Devil and Shocker.
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