Always in Season

Name: Always in Season
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 20, 2019
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Bryan Stevenson, Claudia Lacy, Danny Glover, Eugene Talmadge, Lennon Lacy

2019

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Multitude Films | Release Date: September 20, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Bryan Stevenson, Claudia Lacy, Danny Glover, Eugene Talmadge, Lennon Lacy, Pierre Lacy, Sherrilyn Ifill, William J. Barber II

Summary: Always in Season explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film centers on the case of Lennon Lacy, an African American teen who was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina, on August 29, 2014.Always in Season explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film centers on the case of Lennon Lacy, an African American teen who was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina, on August 29, 2014. Despite inconsistencies in the case, local officials quickly ruled Lennon’s death a suicide, but his mother, Claudia, believes Lennon was lynched. Claudia moves from paralyzing grief to leading the fight for justice for her son. As the film unfolds, Lennon’s case, and the suspicions surrounding it, intersect with stories of other communities seeking justice and reconciliation. A few hundred miles away in Monroe, Georgia, a diverse group of reenactors, including the adult daughter of a former Ku Klux Klan leader, annually dramatize a 1946 quadruple lynching to ensure the victims are never forgotten and encourage the community to come forward with information that might bring the perpetrators to justice. As the terrorism of the past bleeds into the present, the film asks: what will it take for Americans to begin building a national movement for racial justice and reconciliation?… Expand

Director: Jacqueline Olive

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Sep 20, 2019

By virtue of its subject, Always in Season is going to be a very hard sit for many, but this film should be seen. It is an unflinching look at how the racial sins of the past remain flowing through the arteries of the present day. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 19, 2019

This film offers an engrossing mix of history, investigation and activism. Read full review

Stephen Whitty

Sep 19, 2019

An artful, deeply felt documentary, Always in Season has its own, sadly necessary reasons for being. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Sep 19, 2019

Olive paints a portrait of righteous rage and determination. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Sep 26, 2019

The impact of hearing Danny Glover’s calm voice reading published invitations to lynching parties remains chillingly undiminished. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 19, 2019

Olive weaves these stories together with fluidity and purpose, but the ideas of Always in Season sometimes crowd one another out. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Sep 19, 2019

While Olive’s apparent desire to layer together Lacy’s tragic story with historical stories of lynching and the way they impact current culture is understandable (and admirable), the trio of stories that make up Always in Season never fit together. Read full review

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