{"id":2002394,"date":"2025-09-06T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002394"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:27:00","slug":"toronto-hidden-gem-clement-virgos-steal-away-explores-power-identity-and-ghosts-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/toronto-hidden-gem-clement-virgos-steal-away-explores-power-identity-and-ghosts-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Hidden Gem: Clement Virgo\u2019s \u2018Steal Away\u2019 Explores Power, Identity and Ghosts of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clement Virgo<\/a>\u2019s erotic, eerie thriller Steal Away<\/a> tells the story of two young women \u2014 one Black, one white \u2014 who form a bond while trying to unravel the secret history of a stately manor house. Virgo<\/a>, after films like Rude (1995) and Brother<\/a> (2022), returns to the familiar terrain of examining the impact of racism and inequality.<\/p>\n

In an echo of The Book of Negroes<\/a>, Virgo\u2019s 2015 historical TV miniseries, which dealt with the transatlantic slave trade, Steal Away<\/a> centers on C\u00e9cile<\/a>, a young woman played by Mallori Johnson<\/a>, who arrives as a young African refugee to the privileged home of Fanny (Angourie Rice<\/a>), a young and sheltered woman whose world barely extends beyond life with her beautiful and benevolent mother, Florence<\/a>, played by Lauren Lee Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Virgo has Steal Away<\/a> begin as a feminist drama that eventually breaks conventions by morphing into something of a horror film, with even a pinch of the supernatural.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clement Virgo\u2019s erotic, eerie thriller Steal Away tells the story of two young women \u2014 one Black, one white \u2014 who form a bond while trying to unravel the secret history of a stately manor house. Virgo, after films like Rude (1995) and Brother (2022), returns to the familiar terrain of examining the impact of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2002394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toronto-Hidden-Gem-Clement-Virgos-\u2018Steal-Away-Explores-Power-Identity.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}