It's an idiosyncratic portrait of the history and state of gospel music, centered in interviews with Willie May Ford Smith, her family, and those around her. She speaks of Thomas Dorsey, one of the founders of gospel,
Speaking as someone with no religious feeling at all, I found it a telling and moving film about. people with belief. It's so carefully edited and shot you can see the points where they reshoot: an obvious argument about Mrs. Smith's proposed international tour is toned way down into a reasonable discussion, and a dispute about where the first gospel convention took place turns into a calm statement of positions. However, the music is great, and the final sequence, in which Mrs. Smith leads the chorus, shows an outbreak of Dionysian ecstasy that should be the model for the state
Speaking as someone with no religious feeling at all, I found it a telling and moving film about. people with belief. It's so carefully edited and shot you can see the points where they reshoot: an obvious argument about Mrs. Smith's proposed international tour is toned way down into a reasonable discussion, and a dispute about where the first gospel convention took place turns into a calm statement of positions. However, the music is great, and the final sequence, in which Mrs. Smith leads the chorus, shows an outbreak of Dionysian ecstasy that should be the model for the state