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WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?

Directed by Liz Garbus
United States, 2015
Documentary, Biography
  • 102102 minutes

Synopsis

Liz Garbus explores the constant state of opposition that trapped Nina Simone—as a classical pianist pigeonholed in jazz, as a professional boxed in by family life, as a black woman in racist America.

Synopsis

Liz Garbus explores the constant state of opposition that trapped Nina Simone—as a classical pianist pigeonholed in jazz, as a professional boxed in by family life, as a black woman in racist America.