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What Happened, Miss Simone?
Description
The film depicts the life and legend Nina Simone, classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon and legendary recording artist, who lives a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy.
The film depicts the life and legend Nina Simone, classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon and legendary recording artist, who lives a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy.
Actors:
Malcolm X,
Sammy Davis Jr.,
George Wein,
Andrew Stroud,
Al Schackman,
Elisabeth Henry-Macari,
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X
19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Sammy Davis Jr.
8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
George Wein
October 3, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Andrew Stroud
4 December 1925, Halifax County, Virginia, USA
Al Schackman
Elisabeth Henry-Macari
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902, Joplin, Missouri, USA
Genre:
Musical, Biography, Documentary
Director:
Liz Garbus
Liz Garbus
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#James Baldwin #Liz Garbus #Stokely Carmichael #Walter Cronkite #What Happened Miss Simone
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February 22, 2016
A rich and complex tapestry chronicling Simone from her early years struggling to break in.
June 24, 2015
It may not answer What Happened, Miss Simone?, but it does tell us why the question must be asked and will be asked, for a very long time.
June 24, 2015
"What Happened" features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers the question in its title.
July 10, 2016
A biographical sketch so scintillating and authoritative that one barely registers how stylistically generic it is.
June 26, 2015
I think the film overreaches in casting Simone as a standard-bearer against racism and sexism, but it's filled with mesmerizing clips from throughout her performing career as well as numerous interviews with Simone, both audio and on film.
February 19, 2016
A feisty and frequently moving documentary on the life and musical career of singer/songwriter Nina Simone.
June 23, 2015
An often electric, bracingly urgent documentary ...
February 16, 2016
Powerful, intimate, and fresh. We desperately need to hear more women talking about being driven in an inexorable way toward a passion.
June 25, 2015
As music and cultural critic Stanley Crouch says, "You only have to hear her once. No one sounds like her except her."
April 12, 2017
It's an astounding work that is both jarring and unapologetic in its examination of a musical genius.