'Southside with you' provides fresh insight into Obama's love life

August 26, 2016 22:31

Even Michelle Obama has to use deodorant.

That's how the indie romantic comedy-drama Southside With You introduces its not-yet-famous female heroine: She's applying perspiration protection to her underarms.

The year is 1989, and the future First Lady is gearing up for what she will repeatedly insist is not a date. She's simply going to meet up with the newest addition to the Chicago law firm she works at, a Dumbo-eared charmer named Barack Obama.

We know what happens after that. But as the tranquil opening moments suggest, this movie takes far more interest in the people behind those well-known, well-honed political personas.

They are not the most powerful power couple in the free world yet, not by a long shot. Here, they're just Barack and Michelle, two young people getting to know each other over ice cream and Spike Lee movies on a lovely Chicago afternoon.

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