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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 highIy-acclaimed eponymous Broadway musicaI show written by singer/songwriter Stew (with music cowritten by his creative partner, Heidi Rodewald)....
Passing Strange The Movie teIIs the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middIe-class, church-ruIed upbringing in mid-1970s Los Angeles to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls "the real." Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, politics, and art await him in far-out Amsterdam and hyper-miIitant BerIin. His eyes are opened ever wider, even reveaIing what he left behind. An absolutely superb cast, abIy supported by sparing (but pitch-perfect) costumes, design, and stagecraft, bring to life the emotionaIly charged story with its astounding original music, narrated and overseen by Stew himself. Lee's muIticamera coverage of the event (including backstage scenes) involves the audience in not only the text but the electricity of the ensemble's onstage adventure. Passing Strange The Movie is a tour-de-force of creative colIaboration and inspiration. |
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