Paris Is Burning
A portrait of New York's drag ball culture in the late 1980s and the Black and Latino queer and trans people who made it.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 1990
- Director
- Jennie Livingston
- Length
- 71 min · One sitting
- Rated
- MPA R
- Critics' average
- 89/100 across 2 published scores
Genres
Documentary · Portrait documentary · Social & political documentary
What it feels like
Identity & selfhood · LGBTQ+ lives · Kindness & community · Race & the legacy of slavery · Class & inequality · Uplifting · Melancholic