Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but what the writer James Baldwin (1924-87) has called forth is something more profound, expansive — and touching. Owens initially drops down into Istanbul, where his camera is a body, walking and watching. The filmmaker, who is the director, writer, cinematographer and editor, is offering a primer on how to inhabit this world as Baldwin had, with myriad glimpses up close, at a remove, blurred, tightly lensed. It’s only after “Jimmy” shifts to Paris that we meet its titular subject whose transformational journey is depicted in oblique, glancing ways. The post ‘Jimmy’ Review: Inhabiting the World of a Young James Baldwin appeared first on New York Times.