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we know the music they hear, they have seen dancing together and now the Americans will be able to see Barack and Michelle Obama on their first date. It is narrating a film that follows Southside With You, along a summer day of 1989, the future president in his courtship which would end up being his wife.
During the hours they spend together the two attend, among other places, an exhibition, a film by Spike Lee, a drink and an ice cream while talking about their lives, ambitions and also their fears.
“It’s not a political film. It is a human romantic film, love. I think many people will be surprised. I think even if you do not like politics or Obama likely viewers will find many points in common with them through this tape You know what I mean? so no matter what the political affiliation of the beholder, it’s just a love story and if you’ve ever been in love, hurt, or has faced a challenge, definitely has to do ‘Southside with You, “said Tika Sumpter, the actress playing the role of Michelle Obama.
Barack Obama, that summer met 28 years ended marrying Michelle three years after their first date in 1992.
The black community Southside of Chicago serves as backdrop background history. A history and an event in which Michelle sees leadership skills that would end up being US president at a meeting of the community.
“At that time, in 1989, the seeds are then germinate. He worked for the community, she was a lawyer. They begin to work together and to see what was happening in their community, what happened in Chicago and Chicago obviously still in the news with their problems, conflicts between citizens and police. All that is in the news and the president has to deal with it. At the beginning of the relationship and could see what they would become and what worried, “says executive producer, John Legend.
The director says that Obama will be happy to see this story, history, love. The film will hit theaters next Spanish October 17.
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