Honoring Motherhood — Warts and All — in a Rapidly Changing Harlem
Instead of deploying familiar hard-knock-life themes as dramatic shorthand, ‘A Thousand and One’ elevates them as down and dirty facts of life without a whiff of cliché.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “A Thousand and One” explores a headstrong young mother’s steely resolve to create a sense of family for her young son in a rapidly changing Harlem. The film is not simply about the coming of age of the boy, but of the mother as well.
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