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It was the faded monochrome photograph of a small Black boy, both hands gripping a valise, as he leaves London with a party of other school-age evacuees, that caught Steve McQueen’s eye while he was researching his ‘Small Axe’ film anthology. That image spurred the filmmaker on to create his deeply personal new film, ‘Blitz,’ he tells Baz Bamigboye.
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