Searching for Sugar Man
This is such a dont-miss I can't tell you - the story, the back story, the MUSIC, the Man (Rodriguez). A heartbreaker yet it put me on such a high, I floated out of the theater.
Well, the broad thesis holds up, and Searching for Sugar Man is an interesting footnote to a species of secret or denied cultural history: the history of South Africa's white liberal classes, the fabric of whose lives may be overlooked by social historians. Not all whites were philistine racists: many were trapped by history and fate and the apartheid laws they detested. Rodriguez's music gave them a voice – and helped indirectly to change things. This movie might itself make a modest contribution to rewriting the history of white South Africa.
Four decades after his last album, Rodriguez may be recording something new. The 70-year-old singer-songwriter, who has become something of a cult hero since his story was told in the film Searching for Sugar Man, has plans to reunite with one of his original producers.
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