LONDON: Regina King’s stunning directorial debut “One Night in Miami” recounts a fictionalized meeting between Malcom X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke, speculating what the four friends might have talked about in a modest motel room after Ali — then Cassius Clay — had become the heavyweight champion of the world. The friendship between Ali and X, in particular, is one that has fascinated the world for decades, and “Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali” aims to tell the extraordinary story of the pair’s friendship and subsequent falling out. Director Marcus A. Clarke adapts Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith’s book about the pair, and in doing so hopes to shed new light on two figures who have become so rooted in their own legacies that the notion of learning something new about their friendship is an intoxicating prospect. Clarke digs deep, sitting down with X’s daughter, as well as Ali’s brother and daughters, in a bid to cut through some of the myths that surrounded the two and discover the real sentiment behind their powerful relationship, and the devastating repercussions of the fallout. Clarke weaves a story of incredible potential, lovingly chronicling the rise of each man and their role in black representation in a segregated US — “Blood Brothers” feels especially resonant given the recent importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. With careful, thoughtful interviews, reams of stunning archive footage, and some contextual asides, Clarke takes us beyond what we know about X and Ali’s three-year friendship, their subsequent drifting apart, and X’s assassination. “Blood Brothers” is at its most captivating when we learn what Ali’s family think the former boxer felt about the collapse of their relationship, how he regretted them drifting apart, and his attempts to reconcile with X’s family. It is hard to imagine the kind of bond the two men shared and how their relationship changed, but thanks to Clarke’s lovingly curated movie, it is possible to wonder. إعلان