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It seems to be the only stellar premiere the platform has streaming So far, Netflix has approved the release countless times, promising to be an authentic and incredible movie that the public will play.
It is the last film in which we can see the iconic actor Chadwick Boseman, who unfortunately lost his life to colon cancer in August last year, is accompanied on screen by Viola Davis and Glynn Turman, among other great actors who are part of the incredible cast.
The aforementioned film, released today, is called “Mother of the blues” and tells the story of “Ma Rainey”, a singer from Chicago in 1927, where there will be a tension between Rainey, her trumpeter and the manager who wants to control the legendary artist.
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Boseman sings “Levee”, one of his musicians who is in love with the “Ma Rainey” couple and who also seeks to claim their musical rights in the 1920s, when the music industry was dominated by white people.
The film, directed by George C. Wolfe, is based on the iconic work of Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, about which we will tell you some details in the following paragraphs.
The original title of this movie seems to have been too much for Netflix, as it would be called “Ma Rainey’s Black Ass”, however, they decided to make better use of the name I already mentioned, ignored except for the most recognized bluesmen of the time, Ma Rainey was, in the first decades of the last century, the teacher of none other than Bessie Smith, the queen of genre and entertainment.
Based on a play of the same name, a hit on Broadway in the 80’s, the film produced by Denzel Washington and directed by the semi-unknown George C. Wolfe supports the most scandalous theater ever filmed.
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Without disguising its origins and without working theatrically as a director might do with an idea, the film’s story takes place almost entirely in a recording studio in Chicago, with actors who talk loudly and cry a lot, suffer, I laugh out loud and face it.
From what the film shows and references confirm, Rainey would have been the opposite of Billie Holiday, while the latter had a very bad time for her status as a woman of color, Rainey (played by Viola Davis, a triple nominee and winner of Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Fences Unpublished here and a strong nominee for this year) has no problem reaching a record when it happens to her or walking on the arm of a boyfriend who is a few years old, in a restaurant that no one of his race shines on
Davis’s Rainey is indeed the boss, not exactly likeable and overwhelming, a way to defend himself from the white-dominated world, of course, which allowed him to die of a heart attack and not of sadness, addiction, heart and devastated liver and with the police watching her on her deathbed, just like Holiday.
Now, almost fifty years after Lady Sings the Blues (1972), there is a curious coincidence between the two: none of the films dedicated to them are far from their level, then, in “Mother of the Blues”, Rainey He appears with a hyper-made-up face, reddened cheeks and always dirty mascara, setting conditions on the white owners of the recording studio and messing with the arrangements of his musicians.