’12 Years a Slave’ Review Round-up

’12 Years a Slave,’ Steve McQueen’s screen adaptation of Solomon Northup’s memoir of the same title has received rave reviews. See what critics have to say about the Oscar-buzzed landmark film about a tragic chapter in U.S. history that has not been fully explored in cinema. Critics herald it as a masterpiece. It’s no longer a question of whether or not ’12 Years a Slave’ will get Oscar nominations — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress etc. seem like shoe-ins in particular — it’s just a matter of how many it will receive and how many it will win. It is the true story of Solomon Northup, as told to David Wilson, published in 1853. By now the premise of what was previously a fairly obscure autobiography is now well known. Northup was a free black man living in New York State, an educated, accomplished violinist and family man whose life was suddenly disrupted when he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, landing first in Louisiana and passed from one master to another, as he revealed so grippingly in his book. Now the story has been brought to a worldwide audience. [...]Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RightCelebrity/~3/Yfrc21_Zf0I/
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