Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace |
| Original title | Amazing grace |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Alan Elliott , Sydney Pollack |
| script | Jeff Buchanan |
| production |
Stefan Nowicki , Joey Carey , Alexandra Johnes |
| cut | Jeff Buchanan |
| occupation | |
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Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace (English title Amazing Grace ) is an American music and documentary from the year 2018 through a church concert by Aretha Franklin in 1972, consisting of the original film material from Warner Bros. emerged. The film was first shown at the Doc NYC documentary film festival in New York City in November 2018 after the singer's death .
background
In January 1972, Aretha Franklin gave a gospel concert with the Southern California Community Choir and Reverend James Cleveland at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles , which was spread over two evenings. Her live album Amazing Grace was recorded at the concert , which is still the world's best-selling gospel album to this day. Aretha Franklin sang songs like How I Got Over , Precious Memories and an eleven-minute rendition of the hymn Amazing Grace . Gospel music was an important inspiration for the singer throughout her life .
history
The two concert evenings were filmed for Warner Bros. by director Sydney Pollack . After the shooting, however, it turned out that image and sound did not run in parallel and the material was therefore unusable. Sydney Pollack passed the rights to the film to Alan Elliott in 2007 . The problem of deviating tracks could only be resolved through digital techniques. However, Aretha Franklin did not want to have anything to do with the film and prevented performances in 2011 and 2015 by court order. Only after her death did her family agree to a performance. The documentary was shown for the first time on November 12, 2018 at the Doc NYC documentary film festival in New York City . In the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival 2019 , it ran out of competition.
criticism
Susanne Lenz says in the Berliner Zeitung : “This is not a concert, this is a church service.” Aretha Franklin's incredible voice is not the only reason for the attraction: “It is her ability to penetrate her presentation from within, with her body to be with their whole being and so permeable that this fervor is carried over. She usually keeps her eyes closed, but even without eye contact, an inner bond develops with the choir, with the audience in the pews ... "
Web links
- Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Amazing Grace (2018) - Release Info. In: IMDb. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b Susanne Lenz: "Amazing Grace" - A service with Aretha Franklin. In: www.berliner-zeitung.de. February 15, 2019, accessed March 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Verena Lueken : The spirit fights with the flesh. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 16, 2018, page 9 (longer review). The world premiere was commented on by the clergyman and activist William Barber II. Lueken writes that the hall "shook and trembled".
- ↑ DOC NYC page about the film, with trailer , accessed December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Wesley Morris: Aretha Franklin Didn't Want You to See This Movie. But you must. Film review in the New York Times . November 15, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Amazing Grace. In: www.berlinale.de. 2019, accessed March 1, 2019 .