Nina (2016)
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Critic Consensus: A wholly misguided tribute to its subject's searing talent and enduring impact, Nina is the cinematic equivalent of a covers project featuring all the wrong artists.
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Cast
as Nina Simone
as Clifton Henderson
as Richard Pryor
as Lorraine Hansberry
as Clifton's Mother
as Heather
as Gilles, Lead Guitarist
as Henri Edwards
as Nina's Husband
as Head Nurse
as Clifton's Father
as Clifton's Brother
as Customs Agent
as Cop #1
as Recital Stage Woman
as Club Owner
as Miss Larouche, Vocal Coach
as Nurse Mary
as Loud Audience Member
as Radio Interviewer
as Lollipop Homme
as Young Nina
as Doctor Cousier
as Lawyer
as Orderly
as Injection Orderly
as Young Girl on Tape
as Young Girl Singer
as Matt Temple
as Dinner Guest #2
as Frenchman on Moped with Baguette
as Party Pianist
as Valet
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Never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
Respectfully factual in its over-all contours but sensational and sentimental nonetheless, the movie reduces Simone's life to clichés about hope; it replaces the creative drive with the commercial one, the artist with the celebrity.
Saldana does a fine job of delivering the lyrics -- a daunting task for any actress required to step into those vocals, but fans of Simone will be aching for the real deal.
A Nina Simone novice seeing this picture would have no idea who this complex, magnificent artist was, or why she mattered.
Why Mort, who wrote and directed the film, has chosen to focus on Simone's troubled 1990s period in France is anyone's guess.
The word on this Nina Simone biopic has been so toxic for so long - it was filmed in 2012 but only released now - I was really hoping to find something good in it. No luck.
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