What Happened, Miss Simone?

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Torin F MISS SIMONE is a well-crafted documentary about artistry, mental illness, the cost of fame, and the deeper personal impact of the fight for civil rights. The music is secondary to the story of her struggles, including those who supported her, as well as those who suffered. It's not an uplifting or inspiring tale by any means, though Nina's resilience is admirable. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I think that this should be a 10-part series. I think we could use 20 more interviews jumping over her entire career. love her daughter's perspective. <3 it was absolutely what she saw. But Nina Simone deserves a devotion, including her family's world. Like a 10-part series of devotion, from 150 narratives. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Quoting from Maya Angelou for the title, this Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature is a crushingly melancholy biography chronicling black jazz pianist and singer Nina Simone's incredible vocal and piano skills, her ascension from a humble classical piano student to jazz sensation and her plunge into notoriety as a proviolent civil rights activist, maniac depression, domestic abuse and sex obsession. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A stunning account of a complex, tortured genius. At times you feel like a privileged witness to some of the seminal moments in American cultural history. Equal parts inspiring and tragic. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Nina Simone wanted to be the first classical pianist to play Carnegie Hall, but events in her life were such that she started playing in jazz clubs and developed a long career as a singer and songwriter. The film reviews her life, through interviews with her daughter, ex-husband, and her lead guitarist, among others, as well as through her diary writings and recorded interviews. I think what is most fascinating and makes the film completely worth it is the concert footage. You get to hear a lot of the songs that made her famous as she sang them in various venues. I also did not know that she was as active in the civil rights movement as she was, and her activism and disillusionment with America seemed to consume her. I am not sure that I walked away from this with a clear picture of what happened; her ex-husband never really opens up about their relationship. Her daughter did, and you get a better sense of a woman who probably was suffering a mental illness before it was commonly understood. But thumbs up from me. The film did what a good documentary does – revealing other sides of the personalities they explore, things that I did not know. And I loved listening to her again, especially through her concerts. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A documentary that shows instead of just telling which as a viewer you just can't but grateful. Nina Simon life was so conolwx and full of high and lows, while watching you just cnat help but ask what happens next. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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