A ‘blackfaced’ Zoe Saldana is commanding in her portrayal of the tall Priestess of Soul,but the movie relies too heavily on cheap shotsThe refrain from the most famous Nina Simone song never heard in the Nina Simone biopic is the one that rattles around in your head most as you watch it: Goddam!” Cynthia Mort’s long-in-development Nina has been the focus of considerable casting controversy, but the light-skinned Zoe Saldana wearing black makeup and face-altering prosthetics is only the film’s surface problem. At its core it is an inept (not suitable or capable, unqualified), or cliche-ridden story edited together in a treacly and cheap manner. Set 20 years ago,Nina feels like a made-for-television movie of the era, the type which, or thankfully,we rarely see any more. Related: Nina Simone's estate tells biopic star Zoe Saldana: 'hold Nina’s name out your mouth' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com