Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
At 36:33, an elderly couple of Chinese are speaking standard Mandarin in a restaurant presumably in Harlem. However, Mandarin speakers would have been extremely rare in New York or anywhere else beyond Northern China at that time and for several decades afterwards. Any Chinese in New York and the rest of the States and Europe would have been speaking Cantonese, Hokkien, or some other Southern Chinese dialect, with the exception of the wealthier Shanghainese, who had their own dialect until very recently. See more »
Quotes
Billie Holiday:
[from trailer]
Be careful with this feeling. This love right here, baby, it won't love you back. I promise.
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This is a beautiful biography about an iconic singer and a great powerful human. In addition to the beautiful but sad true story, the movie tackles many important topics. Andra Day gives a great superb performance. Cinematography is nice with many beautiful frames. The United States vs. Billie Holiday is nice and heavy but sometimes it feels missing and sometimes feels a bit chaotic with respect to some characters and events. It's flawed but it's still so beautiful.
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This is a beautiful biography about an iconic singer and a great powerful human. In addition to the beautiful but sad true story, the movie tackles many important topics. Andra Day gives a great superb performance. Cinematography is nice with many beautiful frames. The United States vs. Billie Holiday is nice and heavy but sometimes it feels missing and sometimes feels a bit chaotic with respect to some characters and events. It's flawed but it's still so beautiful.