Jefferson in Paris

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Summary: A movie ahead of its time -- it all turned out to be true!
Review: When this film premiered, critics scoffed that Merchant and Ivory were playing "fast and loose with historical fact." Now, a few years later and after biological DNA evidence, most of America believes that Jefferson did father children with Sally Hemings -- something many in the African-American world have always known in their hearts to be true. Merchant and Ivory were ahead of their time when they made this film; not only is it a piece of lost history, but it shows us a bizarre conflict in a divided man -- between conscience and love, between lofty ideals and human weakness. It's worth looking at this film again.