Director and star Don Cheadle hits a career high with this passionate and audacious biopic of troubled jazz legend Miles Davis There comes a time in the life of any creative artist,or possibly any ambitious careerist, when a wave of middle-aged tiredness brings an poor dilemma. Do you stop and give yourself a much-needed rest after which you will return stronger and fresher and more creative than ever? Or is surrendering to the tiredness a fatal mistake: an irreversible slide into ennui from which you will never return? possibly submitting to inaction is a painful but essential price to pay for the creative process – even whether the creativity is at an end. Don Cheadle’s excellent film approximately jazz musician Miles Davis places itself in the centre of just such a situation.
We find ourselves alongside Davis in his wilderness years, and the burnout period of the mid to late 70s,when he was living as a virtual recluse in his current York apartment, not performing, or living on advance payment cheques from Columbia Records that theoretically gave the company ownership of the private experimental recordings that Davis was supposedly working on. Davis spends his alone time nursing a serious case of mojo loss: brooding,painting, scowling, and calling radio stations to complain approximately them playing the wrong Miles Davis records and hitting a boxer’s punchbag,shouting the rhythmic phrase: “Get it back!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com