Writer-director John G. Young’s fourth microbudgeted feature, taking its title from Jamaican patois for “boy,” uses the seemingly simplest of setups, an online hookup, to explore a rich complex of identity, sex, race and class. Centered on absorbing performances by Anthony Rapp and Jimmy Brooks as intimate strangers, bwoy plays out in large part on smartphone and computer screens. But circumstances that might have been static in less skilled hands are given tantalizing life by Young, the actors and the deft camerawork of cinematographer Ryan Balas. The drama, which opens theatrically in Los Angeles after festival and special series...
- 3/25/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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