Meeting the Man James Baldwin in Paris (1971)

In 1970 a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris insisting on setting aside his political activism Baldwin bristled at their questions and the result is a fascinating confrontational often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmarks and reflects on revolution colonialism and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe