Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Released Apr 13, 2018

1h 56m

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Electrifying concert performances and intimate, personal footage showcase the life and talent of singer and actress Grace Jones.

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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami takes an unconventional approach to the rock biopic, resulting in a compelling experience for fans and an intriguing, albeit confusing, primer for novices.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

The offstage sequences can be revealing - in one scene, Jones recalls the abusive step-grandfather who inspired her aggressive musical persona- but director Sophie Fiennes sets such a languid pace that the songs can't come soon enough.

Mar 5, 2020

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

The non-chronological editing oddly makes Jones look as if she's everywhere at once, unbounded by the laws of time and space that ordinary mortals are subject to.

Jun 29, 2018

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Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

Fiennes provides a meandering observation of the woman behind the glamazon, disco diva and full-throated and furious singer/performance artist in this unstructured doc.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 31, 2018

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Graeme Tuckett

The Post NZ

This is an elliptical, at times frustratingly formless, but always watchable and fascinating series of sketches of an artist who really isn't showing any sign of slowing down.

Jun 28, 2021

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Ian Brill

Battleship Pretension

Through hardships, Jones draws on a fulfilled self to explore many different expressions and communicate an artistic voice that is all her own.

Apr 13, 2021

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Liberating. Exhilarating. Honest. Fearless. Grace Jones's status as one of the most important cultural artists of the 20th and 21st centuries is confirmed in every second of Sophie Fiennes's exceptional filmic memoir.

Rated: A+

Mar 20, 2021

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Audience Member

Grace Jones is great but this was a mess. Hard to follow and lacking context and direction.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/15/19

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Audience Member

WTF was this POS ??!!!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

The movie reads like Grace Jones career unpredictable, and wonderful.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

Loved seeing an in depth look at one of my favorite musical artists of all time!!! Grace shaped my teenage years and was a great role model to look up to in being unique!!! I feel that the filmmaker could have done more to make this documentary more spectacular, but I still loved it!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/06/18

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Audience Member

1. Take one of the most fascinating people on earth 2. Make a dull documentary about them

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/19/18

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Audience Member

A mess of a movie. The director doesn't even identify who is speaking so other than Grace herself you have no idea who she's interacting with. And the film meanders all over the place and drags whenever it's not showing concert footage. Very disappointing.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Synopsis

Electrifying concert performances and intimate, personal footage showcase the life and talent of singer and actress Grace Jones.

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Blinder Films
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 13, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $375.2K
Runtime: 1h 56m

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