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What Happened, Miss Simone?
The film depicts the life and legend Nina Simone, classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon and legendary recording artist, who lives a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy.
12 September 1962, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
16 November 1958, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1926, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 February 1933, Tryon, North Carolina, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1 February 1902, Joplin, Missouri, USA
14 December 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
October 3, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12 March 1932, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
6 July 1925, San Mateo, California, USA
4 December 1925, Halifax County, Virginia, USA
2 August 1924, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 November 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1962, USA
29 January 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
February 19, 2016
A feisty and frequently moving documentary on the life and musical career of singer/songwriter Nina Simone.
July 10, 2016
A biographical sketch so scintillating and authoritative that one barely registers how stylistically generic it is.
February 16, 2016
Powerful, intimate, and fresh. We desperately need to hear more women talking about being driven in an inexorable way toward a passion.
June 24, 2015
"What Happened" features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers the question in its title.
February 22, 2016
A rich and complex tapestry chronicling Simone from her early years struggling to break in.
June 26, 2015
I think the film overreaches in casting Simone as a standard-bearer against racism and sexism, but it's filled with mesmerizing clips from throughout her performing career as well as numerous interviews with Simone, both audio and on film.
June 23, 2015
An often electric, bracingly urgent documentary ...
April 12, 2017
It's an astounding work that is both jarring and unapologetic in its examination of a musical genius.
June 24, 2015
It may not answer What Happened, Miss Simone?, but it does tell us why the question must be asked and will be asked, for a very long time.
June 25, 2015
As music and cultural critic Stanley Crouch says, "You only have to hear her once. No one sounds like her except her."
