Can it be both? I missed that lecture in film studies, unless we're talking about the chapter on pandering to trends.

I'll see it. Thanks for the review.

It gets a decent distribution.

Not one mention of Wyatt Cenac's regular appearances The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?

For a guy who basically cracks wise, there's a world-weary droopy-eyed affect that tinges everything he says with a certain elegant forlorness. And he's beautiful.

From the review, the film sounds just a little evocative of "Days of Being Wild" era Wong Kar-Wai, two lovers who meet as we meet them, lost together and wandering about a reimagined metropolitan landscape, every gesture infused with a sadness that genuflects before hopefulness.

Yes, San Francisco is the least black major American city, but it is also the least white major American city. Moreover, in 1960, the black population of SF was almost 30% with a long tradition of black-owned homes and businesses. 60s urban renewal dispossessed most of the black community and forced people out to Oakland, Richmond and other places.

If is it least black and least white?

Latino? Asian? "Mutt"?

There's another movie that sort of used the "blipster" angle--I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks). The main character is a young black man who listens to indie rock and loves sci-fi and comic books--but he has trouble getting black women to date him. Anthony Montgomery and Lia Johnson play the leads, and they're both very believable and charming. If you want a more fleshed-out female character, this might be your film. Unfortunately, it sort of crumbles a bit in the third act, but I think it's still worth a viewing.

I like stories that cover individuals from an ethnic minority who identify with a white-dominated subculture. It's a dilemma that can make a person go schizo, and it also potentially creates a minefield for dating when you live in a major metropolitan area. Thanks for the review... even though it sounds flawed, I already have a bit of a crush on Cenac from The Daily Show.

...if we are to see every movie, book, play, etc. that comes out as either Obama/African-American or not. Move on!

SF is an incredible mix of all kinds of people - white, black, Asian, Latino. Also, Asians of many different countries, Latinos from many different countries. I lived there for 14 years, and it was a very interesting place to live. Ultimately, way too expensive, too crowded and too angry for me, but I did enjoy the diversity.

I lived on the other side of the Bay, which was very black and Latino. I could never quite figure out what San Francisco was.

This movie looks intriguing, and I don't ordinarily go for love stories that throw race in my face, but this looks to have a racial subtext that I could glean if I wanted, and setting one of the oldest and most common mixed-race American partnerships in a city like San Francisco, which is much more than black and white, gives it a unique flavor. (What?! Racial tension in San Francisco?!)

At a film festival a couple of years ago I saw an indie film, I'm Through With White Girls, that had a semi-conventional storyline but traversed so many demographics within black and white and was so quick and witty that it had the audience cracking up every other minute.

Portlander: You're right about the anger. Too much simmering tension, would explode if people dared to acknowledge its existence. Interesting place, but I had to leave.

As a Back woman who has been shunned by other Blacks for being too assimilated, this film strikes a chord with me. Black men basically refuse to date me.I was bullied in middle and high school and was labeled an "oreo", a "sell-out, and a "nerd". I listen to indie music and watch "art"films. I am also into science fiction and fantasy. I am a bookworm.I have gone to see a film like "Atonement" where I am the only Black person in the whole audience. I often spend time on message boards just to find others that share my interests.

I travel extensively in Europe and I find less of this attitude there than in the US. My friends and co-workers in the UK can't undestand why I'm not married or at least have a partner. It is something I just can't explain. I happen to live in one of the least Black cities in South Florida.

I hope this film comes to a theater in my area. I have always felt like I neve fit in. There are a lot of Blacks like myself who can identify with this subculture who are invisible to the larger White society and shunned by their own.

I've often been the only spot of color in many a theater, opera house, concert, etc. It's gotten so bad that at many a restaurant, if there were any other blacks in the room, we casually acknowledge one another with a head nod or smile as a gentle courtesy, causing colleagues or acquaintances to assume I know every black individual present. I was never bullied for my interests. I was spared that, but I've never felt less "black" for participating in anything I was attracted to either. Culture, music, literature, etc are colorblind, or should be. Perhaps, we need to be less self-pitying about our interests and simply tell those people of all races, who find us "strange" or somehow less than black, that whatever we choose to be interested in becomes a part of "black" culture by virtue of our participation. Like the characters in this interesting movie, I believe racial difference to be more a matter of social construct than biological difference. Insecurity and conformity is why some blacks are afraid to venture outside the safety of so-called black culture, but that's a very human characteristic. I'm a huge fan of individualism over racial conformity. So, enjoy your indie movies and books. :-) If I ever happen to see you in a bookstore in Paris or Sienna, we'll acknowledge one another with a smile of recognition and a silent high-five. :-D