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Director And Writer Of Classic ‘Love Jones’ Never Got Another Chance: 13 Things To Know

Director And Writer Of Classic ‘Love Jones’ Never Got Another Chance: 13 Things To Know

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6. Praise for ‘Love Jones’

There was a flood of critical praise heaped on “Love Jones.” Pop Matters, for example,” compared it to the French new wave dramas of screenwriter-director Claude Sautet.

“Many love stories contrive to get their characters together at the end. This one contrives, not to keep them apart, but to bring them to a bittersweet awareness that is above simple love,” said famed film critic Roger Ebert.