Toe-tapping musical dramas you need to add to your watch list.
starring Austin Butler, Jennifer Hudson’s take on Aretha Franklin in a project helmed by Liesl Tommy, and Lucy Boynton playing Marianne Faithfull in a ’60s-set drama from Ian Bonhôte.How Billie Holiday’s trauma shaped her art:One music legend plays another in Sidney J Furie’s ode to the celebrated jazz singer, which marked Diana Ross’s big-screen debut.
Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne give the performances of their careers as Tina and Ike Turner in Brian Gibson’s portrait of the musical duo’s tumultuous marriage. After meeting in St Louis, she begins singing with his band but their relationship turns abusive once her stardom eclipses his. She survives, though, and grows into an icon of resilience — a soul legend who filed for divorce, went solo and became one of the best-selling recording artists of all time as a result.
Trust Todd Haynes to turn the traditional biopic structure on its head for this sweeping saga which casts six actors as various iterations of the living legend: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere and Marcus Carl Franklin. The result is a dizzying tour de force, expansive in its scope and rich in its allusions, shedding light on an artist who is still at the peak of his powers.
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