2018 · documentary · music
Amazing Grace (2018)
Directed by Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack1h 27m2018
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.
Our read: Amazing Grace (2018) (2018) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded documentary · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, measured, measured documentary / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- measured
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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