Fraught Life of a Cast-Iron Songstress
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Watching the great jazz singer Anita O’Day croaking “The Nearness of You” in her mid-80s in the final moments of “Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer,” it is impossible to determine whether she is addressing life or death. What seems clear in the interview that makes up the spine of the movie is that near the end of her life, the so-called Jezebel of Jazz, who had been pronounced legally dead after a heroin overdose in the late 1960s, had few regrets.
The portrait that emerges in this documentary, directed by her former manager Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden, is of a woman who always lived by her own rules. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3644 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 15 agosto 2008
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