‘Babylon’ Film Screening

A poignant, unflinching slice of British-Jamaican street life, Franco Rosso’s “Babylon” premiered at Cannes in 1980, but was never released in the U.S. and received an X-rating in the U.K. for being too controversial.

Co-written by Martin Stellman (“Quadrophenia”) and shot by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges (“The Killing Fields”), the film follows a young South London DJ, played by Brinsley Forde, frontman of reggae group Aswad, as he tries to get by while battling racism and xenophobia on a daily basis.

The film’s tension is tempered by the dancehall scene’s smokey euphoria and a great score by Dennis Bovell.

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