In this week's print edition, to inaugurate my reign as the most reliable movie critic in America, I misidentified Misan Sagay, the screenwriter of Belle, as a man. My apologies to Ms. Sagay; that's the sort of sexist thinking that makes some people (myself included) wish there were more women writing about film. Belle, which opens this week at Landmark's Century Centre and Showplace ICON, is a fictionalized biography of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race woman who was given an aristocratic upbringing in 18th-century England.…
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