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‘FIVE STAR’
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Directed by Robert Greene
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in his criminal operation. John is torn between questions about his father’s death, allegiance to Primo, a budding romance, and his mother’s fears that he will meet the same fate as his father. The narrative can be a bit pat, but the film is at its best lingering on the naturalistic moments happening in and around the story — the bustle of Brooklynites in the background, John’s goofy tenderness in puppy love, Primo playing with his kids. The film uses the real-life James “Primo” Grant’s real-life family — his girlfriend and his four kids — and these are the scenes that most reward the fiction-documentary blend, as we see the joy and the ache in Primo as he tries to envision a secure future for his family. The film is perhaps a bit too enamored with Primo’s O.G. wisdom at times, but Primo himself (the character, the actor, the man) is a tour de force. You can’t take your eyes off him. 6 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 p.m. Friday, The Rep. DR
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recall tearing so hard in my life ... I teared like a baby. Because I missed the most important part of my son’s life and that was his coming. And on that day, I promised my kids, I swore to my son and I swore to my daughter: I’ll never leave you again.” The thoughtful gangster — the tenderness and the violence, the rage and the calculating patience — is a familiar archetype in film and television. The difference in “Five Star” is that Primo is a real-life gang member playing a dramatized version of himself (he caused a bit of a stir at the Tribeca Film Festival when he told the audience during a Q&A that he remains an active member of the Bloods street gang; he’ll be in Little Rock for the festival, too). Keith Miller’s previous film, “Pine Hill” used a chance real-life encounter Miller had with another Brooklyn resident, Shannon Harper, to build a deeply personal fictionalized portrait of Harper, who played himself. “Five Star” finds similar emotional power in the spaces between fiction and documentary. The film depicts the story of John (played by one of the few professional actors in the cast), a cocky, rail-thin 15-year-old whose father was once a gang leader before he was shot and killed. Despite pimples and peach fuzz, John wants to be a man, and Primo — who was close to John’s father — offers to mentor him and give him work
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