The film will first premiere in select theaters on October 27 before making its Netflix debut on November 10.
That society is 1920s New York, a world that Larsen rendered in deft, economical strokes but which emerges here in a blur of cloche hats and flapper dresses, and also in the blasts of jazz and snatches of gossip swirling around a crowded dance floor.
Against this backdrop — stylishly rendered by the production designer Nora Mendis and the costume designer Marci Rodgers — Irene Redfield Tessa Thompson and her doctor husband, Brian André Holland , are the very picture of Black upper-middle-class propriety.
Clare is hungering for her old home of Harlem.