The Canadian short documentary “King’s Court” by Serville Poblette offers viewers a fly on the wall basketball centric eavesdropping on two young black men in a community housing project “Bleecker Street Apartments” in Toronto transitioning into adulthood.
SK and Marley are dear friends with a love of basketball that binds them in friendship to the extent they hold court with each other testifying their innermost thoughts on the past, present and future. They discuss their childhood, goals in life, ambitions, perceptions of themselves, regrets, mistakes, the nature of love, anxiety and doubt. Easy going, raw and frank is the dialogue as is the tone of the documentary and what a privilege to be a fly on the wall.
Set against community housing skyscrapers, the basketball court and the Bleecker Street hood with interspersed clips of younger children watching and conversing and playing basketball with their own dreams quite like SK and Marley in their recent past.
RKS 2025 Canadian Documentary Rating 86/100.
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