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What Happened, Miss Simone?
TrailerThe 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: James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael, Walter Cronkite, Stanley Crouch, Gerrit De Bruin, Dick Gregory, Hugh M. Hefner, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, Lisa Simone Kelly, Martin Luther King, Al Schackman, ...»Director: Liz GarbusCountry: United StatesDuration: 101 minQuality: HDRelease: 2015IMDb: 7.60 CommentsSort By- Newest
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Critic Reviews of "What Happened, Miss Simone?"
Christian Science MonitorJune 26, 2015I 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.
Los Angeles TimesJune 25, 2015As music and cultural critic Stanley Crouch says, "You only have to hear her once. No one sounds like her except her."
San Francisco ChronicleJune 24, 2015It 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.
RogerEbert.comJune 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.
Shadow and ActApril 12, 2017It's an astounding work that is both jarring and unapologetic in its examination of a musical genius.
Antagony & EcstasyJuly 10, 2016A biographical sketch so scintillating and authoritative that one barely registers how stylistically generic it is.
The Film StageFebruary 22, 2016A rich and complex tapestry chronicling Simone from her early years struggling to break in.
Spirituality and PracticeFebruary 19, 2016A feisty and frequently moving documentary on the life and musical career of singer/songwriter Nina Simone.
Flick FilosopherFebruary 16, 2016Powerful, intimate, and fresh. We desperately need to hear more women talking about being driven in an inexorable way toward a passion.
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