We Cry Together Short Film : Reviews...(Exclusive)

FILM REVIEW FILM REVIEW By : Quick Insurance Guru By : Quick Insurance Guru Friday, 2 September 2022 Friday, 2 September 2022

When Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar’s fifth studio album, was released on May 13, one of the album’s standout tracks quickly became “We Cry Together,”

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Taylour Paige assumes the role of Lamar’s star-crossed lover his trigger and his muse & today the hyperreal song has...

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Exclusive.... come to life further with the worldwide debut of a six-minute short film of the same name.

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The short film based on the album’s eighth track, in which a quarreling couple communicates both everything and

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nothing, was produced by Lamar’s creative collective pgLang and shot with live audio and no cuts in a single take...

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nothing, was produced by Lamar’s creative collective pgLang and shot with live audio and no cuts in a single take...

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a fitting approach for an album rendered in blues and Blackness, woven with elements of both trap and free jazz.

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“We Cry Together” (the song) was recorded in February 2020, and the accompanying short film was shot weeks later in mid-March, just a day...

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before quarantine was mandated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Directed by Jake Schreier, Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar, “We Cry Together”

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