Wednesday December 11th 2019

USA   2018   130 minutes
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen

The film takes its title from ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’, an annual publication which as late as 1966 acted as a guide for safe travel and lodging in the segregated states of the American South. The elegant and urbane Dr Don Shirley is an African-American musician: out-of-work Tony Vallelonga is an Italian-American night-club bouncer. Dr Shirley is about to embark on a concert tour which will take him to the Deep South, and he hires Tony to be his chauffeur and guardian. As the tour progresses, the ill-matched couple come to respect each other’s strengths and weaknesses, but it is a steep learning curve for both men- and one which it is intriguing and enjoyable to watch.