Review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) by Wesley Morris for The New York Times — 29 Jun 2021
On one hand, this is just cinema. On the other, there’s something about the way that the editing keeps time with the music, the way the talking is enhancing what’s onstage rather than upstaging it.
In many of these passages, facts, gyration, jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium. So, yeah: cinema, obviously. But also something that feels rarer: syncopation.
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This review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) was written by Wesley Morris and published by The New York Times on 29 Jun 2021.
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) has generally received very positive reviews.
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