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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African American music and culture, and promoted Black pride and unity.

Cast

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Stevie Wonder
  • B.B. King
  • Chris Rock
  • Nina Simone

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Verified Review

A history lesson wrapped in some of the best music of the late 60’s!

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all the feels

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Metacritic

100
Jul 1, 2021

Throughout the film, Questlove deconstructs the sterility of a typical talking heads documentary. The inclusion of interviews isn’t to incorporate some sense of detached expertise. When faces do remain in focus, it’s to highlight the width of their grins, the tears in their eyes, their open mouths while watching the footage, their shock that someone else finally remembers.

Metacritic review by Selome Hailu
Selome Hailu
Austin Chronicle
91
Jun 30, 2021

Where Summer Of Soul really distinguishes itself is in Thompson’s inspired filmmaking. Making his directorial debut, the Roots drummer and frontman approaches this condensed narrative with a musician’s sense of timing, expertly assembling rhythmic montages with editor Joshua Pearson that transcend flashy music-video devices to relay a sense of conversation, of voices reaching across the decades to be heard.

Metacritic review by Katie Rife
Katie Rife
The A.V. Club
90
Jun 28, 2021

Summer of Soul is one of those rare films from which you emerge saying, “My favorite part was that bit. No, that bit. Wait, how about that bit?”

Anthony Lane
The New Yorker