Larger-than-life: Nina Simone film writer-director, others, on beauty, challenge of musician biopics
Even just watching YouTube videos of jazz-soul singer Nina Simone – playing her political hit Four Women in 1969, big heavy-metal hoop earrings dangling, or pounding out civil rights anthem Mississippi Goddam on the piano, in no makeup and a sparkling sleeveless gown, in 1988 – you feel the intensity of her eyes, the way her deep voice slinks up and down, always rooted.
How do you recreate or reinterpret that, the breath of a musician’s life, their art, as a biopic, on film?
“It’s a beautiful genre, if you do it right, and capture the essence of that person,” said Cynthia Mort,...
How do you recreate or reinterpret that, the breath of a musician’s life, their art, as a biopic, on film?
“It’s a beautiful genre, if you do it right, and capture the essence of that person,” said Cynthia Mort,...
- 8/25/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
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