Passing (2021)

This is a movie about two light skinned black women who know each otehr from childhood and meet again in 1920's New York City. Clare is passing for white. She’s convincing enough to fool a lot of people, including her racist husband. Irene is living in Harlem but on one particular day decided to try her hand at fooling the masses that she too is white. She nervously enters a White dining establishment and takes a seatlooking uncomfortable and anxious. It is in white Manhattan that they remeet up, but it is in Harlem that Clare wants to experience just exactly the part of her culture and herself that she has given up in order to live with the access that being white gives her. The script is taken from a book of the same name, and is multi-layered in nuance, maybe as a result. This was completely snubbed by the Oscars this year, but the acting, screenplay, and cinematography are all quite impressive.