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She's Gotta Have It centers on Nola Darling, a Brooklyn-based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon.
One of the virtues of getting to make a TV show out of a movie is the opportunity to expand the world of that movie, to give each character his or her due. In She's Gotta Have It, Lee does that.
Creator-director Lee lovingly wraps Nola in a visual and musical valentine to a gentrifying Fort Greene, with soundtrack albums helpfully flashing onscreen. Even when it gets preachy and repetitious, this is a gorgeous character study.
Above all, I loved Lee's perfect, precise framing, the way he collected everything he's learned since the first She's Gotta Have It and loaded it into this love letter to his city and his favorite music and some really tremendous actors.
Overall, She's Gotta Have It has the performances, captivating story, and Spike Lee style that results in an utterly fascinating glimpse into its characters' minds.