2021 · music · documentary · history
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Directed by Questlove1h 57m2021
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
Our read: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded music · documentary · history entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle music / documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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