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Compensation
Directed by
Zeinabu irene Davis
Not Rated
1999
1h 32m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
7.1
93%
6.6
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The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
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Cast of Compensation
Michelle A. Banks
Malindy/Malaika Brown
John Earl Jelks
Arthur/Nico Jones
Nirvana Cobb
Tildy Evans
Kevin L. Davis
Tyrone
K. Lynne Stephens
Aminata Brown
Lisë M. Tillman-Wilson
Malvina
L.C. Satterfield
Minister Greeting Immigrants
Crystal Barnes
Auntie Nidia
Angela Roberts
Malaika's Mom
Jennifer Evans
Jazz Club Emcee
Lisa Brock
Period Movie Player
Issac White
Nico's Neighbor
Tom Skilling
television meteorologist
Zeinabu irene Davis
Director / Producer / Editor
Marc Arthur Chéry
Screenplay / Producer
Yvonne Welbon
Associate Producer
Dana Briscoe
Associate Producer / Editor
Cathy C. Cook
Production Design
Pierre Désir
Director Of Photography
Compensation Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
From today's perspective, [Zeinabu irene] Davis's concerns don't seem radical necessarily, but though rooted in the realities of the past, her film really was ahead of its time.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
the film's greater achievement is its use of archival photography to weave in specific histories of the past and then-present and silent film techniques which lend themselves to the deaf experience...a major rediscovery
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Sarah Vincent
I honestly do not think that I am smart enough to convey how innovative and unique "Compensation" is. It is unlike anything that you have ever seen, could be challenging to watch and should be watched repeatedly to fully appreciate.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
Davis shrewdly thought about a narrative from all angles to design an experience in which no one is left out, least of all those just wanting a good time at the movies or those who prefer their cinema more avant garde.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
Davis' visionary approach-which imagines deafness and Black life in infinitely gentle terms-spellbindingly brings us into a soulful world.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Compensation deftly uses intimate methods of character identification to encourage the viewer to imbibe the larger history lived through those figures.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The great power of the movie, beyond the passionate specifics of its romantic dramas, is in the distillation of an enormous vision of historical unity.
New York Times
Lisa Kennedy
It is the loves, labors and vulnerabilities two couples in two different eras experience that make this black-and-white film from 1999 such an elegant and presciently inventive work.
Moviefone
Marya E. Gates
A beautiful film about the power of communication and human connection.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The storytelling is pointedly visual, modeled after the silent cinema, and the resulting purity of emotion elevates even the modern-day love story.
Chicago Tribune
Achy Obejas
The handsome black and white film, which plays like a silent movie with its ambient soundtrack and ornate title cards, creates a complex and vivid, vintage Chicago using historical and family photos.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Compensation is an important achievement, illuminating and captivating, and it deserves the chance to reach the widest audience possible.
Boston Globe
John Koch
It rewards viewers with patience for artfully idiosyncratic filmmaking. If s daunting at first, but once you enter into filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis's rhythms and silences, its effects can be eye-opening.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Imaginatively conceived but indifferently executed.
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