Trailer for Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga's 1920's Set Film PASSING

Rebecca Hall is making her directorial debut with a new 1920’s set drama titled Passing, and it stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Netflix released the first trailer for the film, and it tells the intriguing story of two black women who are living two very different lives.

The two woman are childhood friends, who reconnect later in life. The story follows “Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga), who can 'pass' as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York." The synopsis for the film reads:

After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene's husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.

The movie is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, and the film uses "the notion of 'passing' to explore not just racial identity but gender and the responsibilities of motherhood, sexuality and the performance of femininity."

 The movie also stars Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Alexander Skarsgard. Passing will be released in select theaters on October 27th, 2021, before heading to Netflix on November 10, 2021.