Upcoming President Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and attorney Michael Robinson (Tika Sumter) have a different experience by visiting an exhibition of African descent at a local art center. Each of them tries to show Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing a show, and they have a new kiss somewhere.
Though it's barely 84 minutes long, this buoyant yet reflective movie captures the ever-shifting mood of a daylong encounter that changed both its protagonists' lives.
President Obama's fans and haters alike will find something to enjoy in this slightly stilted yet oddly fascinating account of the Harvard law student's first date with Michelle Robinson, the woman who would eventually become his wife.
A gentle, rose-tinted piece of political nostalgia-one that glances at the divisions in American society, but still casts a optimistic view toward whatever's next.
There is simplicity and verisimilitude, even emotion and suspense, in the development of the plot but its incompleteness takes away much of the repercussion to which it aspires. [Full review in Spanish]
