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2022Movie⏱️ 1h 5m
DocumentaryMusic
6.6
IMDB Rating
344 votes

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state televis...

Director
Alain Gomis
Writers
N/A
Stars
Thelonious Monk
Release Date
August 7, 2022
Language
French, English
Country
France, Germany
🏆 1
Wins
🎯 6
Nominations
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
as Self

🎬 Technical Specs

Production
Andolfi, Sphere Films, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)

🎯 Categories

FrenchDocumentaryMusic

⭐ Featured Review

Trying to find racism everywhere
by maisonprofonde2022-11-20
1/10

"This could have been a great documentary but it spectacularly felt short of that. The angle take by the director is full of bad faith. Spending one hour where you see a great pianist player getting a bad interview isn't racism, it's just what it is. When looking at this documentary I find the director to have a strong color filter when seeing people, if Monk or the interviewer where the same color this would still have been a painful interview as the interview team is badly prepared. That's it. I hope this empty documentary wasn't funded by peoples' taxes... Overall y..."

📖 Synopsis

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state televis...