As a white driver, Frank Vallelonga, known as Tony Lip, and his black employer, the composer and musician Don Shirley, in the 1962 South, they have genuine chemistry that plays like a Miles Davis solo with a Cannonball Adderley accompaniment. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are wonderful. “That was the best film I’ve seen in years!” one woman said as she walked out with a smile on her face. Once it was over, they clapped and commented to one another about how good the movie had been.
I saw “Green Book” in a crowd of older white people - the precise audience this film had in mind.
