Review of Losing Ground

This is a unique film, directed by a black female director. It never had a real commercial release. It was seldom seen during the director's short life. It gained a new life after her daughter found a way to get it to TCM and introduce it to a new audience. I don't really think most white - and few black - audiences would be ready for a movie that begins with a black female professor discussing Kant, Hegel and the animus behind Jean-Paul Sartre's work. The movie brings together one of the most eclectic black casts ever and shows black people who are rarely-if-ever shown in films in a real-life drama. No drugs, gangs, rap music, violence or drugs. No wonder no distributor would touch it.