Poster movie

The Soul of a Man

Documentary

Music

Lenguage:103 min

Duration:en

Release date:May 16, 2003

Calificacion:6.4

Description:

In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

Cast

Laurence Fishburne
Laurence FishburneSelf - Narrator
Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas KingBlind Willie Johnson
Keith B. Brown
Keith B. BrownSkip James
J.B. Lenoir
J.B. LenoirSelf (archive footage)
Skip James
Skip JamesSelf (archive footage)
T Bone Burnett
T Bone BurnettSelf
John Mayall
John MayallSelf (archive footage)
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda WilliamsSelf
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie RaittSelf
Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra WilsonSelf

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