Review of Love & Basketball (2000) by Russell H — 27 Jul 2016

The last great romance film of the twentieth century. I think the particular brilliance of this film, however, is the way writer/director Prince-.

Bythewood weaves in feminist films in a subtly overt way. She overtly shows the men's basketball games played in a coliseum while the women's team is relegated to what amounts to a high school gym. But she does it in such a nonchalant way you may the significance. And though she could have pressed the point home in a preachy way, when Monica and Quincy have their fight over Monica leaving Quincy because of her desire to start the next game, she leaves the point to the subtext: women are expected to drop everything to support their man, but never the other way around.