Actress Rebecca Hall adapts and directs the intoxicating and intricately-designed “Passing,” a new film (Hall’s fist as a director) based on the 1929 novella from author Nella Larson.

This is a story that confronts the realities of the act of “passing,” which refers to members of minority communities (blacks, Jews, etc) who were forced to pass as white to sidestep societal prejudices.