REVIEW: The HBO documentary 'The Stroll' tells the story of the Black trans sex workers who strolled Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
is a personal piece of work; it even includes footage of Lovell from when she was an active stroller, shot, Lovell says in her doc, when she was high on cocaine. She is deeply invested in the subject.
Today, you can stroll above The Stroll, along the idyllic High Line, a carefully manicured slice of urban Eden, to which one former stroller quips, “The only high line we had was a crack pipe on the pier next to the water.”andas a stark portrait of the naked city as it used to be. Lovell may know better than to overly romanticize this time and place, but she also knows there was something vivid, real, and, most important for these purposes, cinematic about her old haunts.
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