"What Happened, Miss Simone" is a very raw and true documentary.
Today, Netflix shared the trailer for What Happened, Miss Simone?, their Nina Simone documentary. Jeff L. Lieberman, director of 2015's The Amazing Nina Simone, decries Nina's historical inaccuracies and …
From over 100 hours of these recordings, the film weaves together Nina’s narrative, told largely in her own words. Robert Johnson's defense of his film Nina was not only insulting, it was 100% wrong. Nina Simone achieved fame, fortune and legend status. Nina Simone‘s power was evident any time she sang; her personality came through in every aspect of her unique voice and delivery. She was amazing, and her music will endure. She wanted equality.
The Irresponsibility of 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul." Nina Simone Documentary Director Slams "Ugly and Inaccurate" Zoe Saldana Biopic. promises to be as complex and evocative as its subject, the legendary singer Nina Simone. Nina Simone was one of music’s most incendiary, brilliant and necessary artists. uses recently unearthed audiotapes, recorded over the course of three decades, of Nina telling her life story to various interviewers and would-be biographers. A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul." Watch Nina Simone Tackle Her Demons in Stirring Documentary Trailer Liz Garbus-directed ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ will premiere on Netflix and in select theatres June 26th Watch trailers & learn more. The Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? Nina Simone died in 2003, but her voice continues to echo into the present. The most generous review that I can give is, Liz Garbus continues the tradition of painting genius as tortured, afflicted, abusive. The trailer was released earlier this week (April 29), an electrifying visual that exhibits Simone’s prowess as a … What happpened, Miss Simone? Check it out below.
But she wanted more.
Simone was deeply flawed, too—a drinker and, as this clip tells it, prone to bouts of violence, which made her all the more real and relatable, at least to her fans.