this film wasn not good at all . i be able to catch it at a film festival and do not appreciate the content i be force to watch . it a well shot film about family look to reconnect after the death of the family cornerstone ( gabrielle union ) die . the film star billy dee williams a gabrielle union brother . well and actually and gabrielle union portrayed the woman in her early year and which should help explain why the woman be billy dee williams older sister . this have to be billy dee william bad performance in his career and ever . he look a if he do not remember his line in a few scene . he be an unlikable and hardly ever empathetic character and who father a daughter while marry to a white woman whom he already have a daughter with as well . the two daughter be old now and while the daughter he have with the white woman ( lucy ) be try to connect with him and his other daughter do not want anything to do with him . billy dee character be so pathetic that the only way they can get him to fly in from paris for his sister funeral be by tell him that the funeral have already pass and his late sister leave him with the responsibility of handle her paperwork . why they have to fool him . because he do not like attend funeral . i know . youre ask and but he do not want to attend his own sister funeral too . yes . he claim he do not like be around the forced feeling of emotion that be share amongst the people pay their respect . he do not want anything to do with that . now be suppose to empathize with that ahole . the rest of the performance in the film be flat with equally flat character . the director and editor do not care to consider the pacing of the film . the flashback be painful to watch . it be a bad film . however and it seem to be the favorite at black film festival while a film that glorify african american dependence on caucasian to find a love that they can settle down with and even if it be a healthy relationship . when lame love story like this win best of festival at the black film festival and it make me question the judgment of black people on film . in these same festival and the only film that win award be educational film about african american culture and black film direct by caucasian director . i be not say that anything be wrong with a white person direct story write for people of color . the problem with these film be that they never argue from both point of view and which be usually the film that actually speak to the mass . these film be often one side form of didacticism . these film fail at execute the power of both side of the argument that the film be revolve around . the writer and director never compose the scene and sequence that contradict your final statement with as much truth and energy a those that reinforce it . these film always slant the argument . what i be say be and be the people run these black film festival judge a film off of pure content and which to me mean direct and act and write cinematography and editing and etc . and or be they judge film off of strictly the message be deliver about african american culture . be we suppose to expect a film like constellation to have a shot in the world against film like million dollar baby and sideways . what happen to film be entertain . when i mean entertainment and i mean the ritual of sit in the dark and staring at the screen and invest tremendous concentration and energy into what one hop will be satisfy and meaningful emotional experience . why can not these festival appreciate film that get their message across without preach . why can not these black film festival acknowledge film that be well told piece of work that be brutally honest and tell the truth . i believe we have no responsibility to cure social ill or renew faith in humanity and to uplift the spirit of society or even express our inner be . we have only one responsibility represent to tell the truth . robert mckee . now that something i totally agree with . these same black film festival put down hustle and flo a if it be that awful film stereotype black . however and it an honest film about a pimp with a dream . a pimp can not dream . i recall the last time i saw a real pimp he be a human be . and aren not they and pimp and prostitution a harsh reality in our society at large and not just in the black community but all over . the power that be in black hollywood believe that film like this be make afro american look bad in the eye of others and a if others do not know that there be pimp in the hood . the truth be and until african american people in film can accept the truth about themselves and dare to share it with the world and then our film will never have a chance in the world . this film be awful . the best thing be the cinematography and zoe .