Highly recommend. Fireworks, balloon bouquets, stardust, rose petals, confetti and ticker tape for director Lee Daniels and stars Andra Day and Trevante Rhodes.
Starting with odds stacked against her....her mother was 13/her dad 15. As a girl, she ran errands for women in a brothel...scrubbed floors...sexual abuse....in the face of all that, Miss Billie Holiday used her beautiful voice, rhythm and style to captivate the world. The horrors she faced with narc agents going after her....please see NY Times obit link below. Very sad.
Her song, “Strange Fruit,” about a lynching she witnessed. So raw. Again, how remarkably strong Miss Holiday was, how remarkably strong with expressing her art (when it wasn’t squashed). Pain and grace in the face of unspeakable, unthinkable tragedy.
Rated R, one of most disturbing/vivid views I’ve ever seen of drug use/addiction, though I have not seen a lot. Some explicit sex/nudity. Incredible fashion, exceptional flowers in her hair, very handsome Rhodes.
She loved her dogs, and held onto her connection to Catholicism.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0407.html
Back to watching the Oscars now.
Good night to you.
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