2008 · drama · biography · music
Cadillac Records (2008)
Directed by Darnell Martin1h 49m2008
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Our read: Cadillac Records (2008) (2008) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · biography · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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