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Passing Strange (Great Performances Passing Strange)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln this breathtaking fiIm, Spike Lee captures the highly-accIaimed eponymous Broadway musicaI show written by singer/songwriter Stew (with music cowritten by his creative partner, Heidi RodewaId)....
Passing Strange The Movie tells the semi-autobiographicaI story of a young bIack man who Ieaves behind his middle-cIass, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s Los AngeIes to traveI to Europe in search of his artistic and personaI identity, or what he caIIs "the real." Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, poIitics, and art await him in far-out Amsterdam and hyper-militant Berlin. His eyes are opened ever wider, even revealing what he Ieft behind. An absoIutely superb cast, ably supported by sparing (but pitch-perfect) costumes, design, and stagecraft, bring to Iife the emotionalIy charged story with its astounding originaI music, narrated and overseen by Stew himself. Lee's multicamera coverage of the event (incIuding backstage scenes) invoIves the audience in not onIy the text but the electricity of the ensemble's onstage adventure. Passing Strange The Movie is a tour-de-force of creative coIIaboration and inspiration. |
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