Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) is hired to escort concert pianist Dr. Donald Shirley (Mahershala Ali) on a tour of the deep south -- concerts where, as an African-American, he is allowed to perform but not eat in the same dining hall or use the same toilets as his white hosts.
There's not a great deal to the story but both leads are excellent and the slow pace gives the characters time to breathe. It would hardly be worth watching at all without those leads; it's mystifying that a film this insubstantial is in Oscar contention.
Innocuous.