The Mother of Blues premieres on Netflix today and promises to be a success

It turns out to be the only great premiere the platform has streaming To this day, Netflix has endorsed the release numerous times and promises to be an authentic and incredible movie that audiences will rave about.

It is the last film in which we can see the iconic actor Chadwick Boseman, who sadly lost his life to colon cancer last August, is accompanied on-screen by Viola Davis and Glynn Turman, among other great actors who make up the incredible cast.

The aforementioned movie, released today, is given a name “The Mother of the Blues” and tells the story of “Ma Rainey,” a Chicago singer in 1927, where tension will grow between Rainey, her trumpet player, and the manager who wants to control the legendary artist.

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Boseman plays “Levee”, one of his musicians who is in love with the “Ma Rainey” couple and who is also trying to claim the musical rights corresponding to him in the 1920s, a time when the music industry was dominated by people white .

The movie, directed by George C. Wolfe, is based on the iconic work of Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, details of which we will share in the following sections.

The original title of this movie seems too much for Netflix considering it would be called ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, but they decided to better use the name we already mentioned, ignored except for the most recognized blues men at the time, Ma Rainey was, in the first decades of the last century, the teacher of none other than Bessie Smith, queen of genre and entertainment.

Based on a play of the same name, a Broadway hit in the 1980s, the film produced by Denzel Washington and directed by the semi-unknown George C. Wolfe has the most insane theater ever filmed.

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Without hypocrisy about its origins and without working theatrically as a director might with an idea, the story of the film takes place almost entirely in a Chicago recording studio, with actors speaking loudly and crying a lot, suffering, laughing out loud and make faces.

From what the film shows and the credentials confirm, Rainey is said to have been the complete opposite of Billie Holiday, while the latter took it very badly for her condition as a woman of color, Rainey (played by Viola Davis, three-time nominee and Oscar winner for best female supporting actor for the here unpublished Fences and a strong candidate for this year) has no problem getting a recording at the moment that occurs to him or walking on the arm of a lover who is several years old, in a restaurant in the one who shines none of his race.

Davis’ Rainey is indeed bossy, not exactly sympathetic and overwhelming, a way of defending herself against the world dominated by white people, which caused her to die of a heart attack and not grief, addiction, a devastated heart and liver and with the police. chases her to her deathbed, just like Holiday.

Now, almost fifty years after Lady Sings the Blues (1972), there is a curious coincidence between the two: none of the films dedicated to them are far from their level, so in “The Mother of the Blues”, Rainey He appears with a hyper-made-up face, flushed cheeks and constantly smeared mascara, making conditions for the white owners of the recording studio and messing with his musicians’ arrangements.