Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThis artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
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- WissenswertesToni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019, a month and a half after this film was released.
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Toni Morrison: [Toni Morrison, in voiceover during opening credits, reading from her 1987 novel, "Beloved"] She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am? She gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know. When you got a woman who is a friend of your *mind*.
- Crazy CreditsAccompanying the opening credits, film footage shows someone's hands creating a cumulative set of collages that are assembled from mixed-and-matched pieces of photos of the face of the documentary's subject, Toni Morrison. At the start of this sequence, Morrison is heard in voiceover saying, "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am? She gather them and give them back to me in all the right order". (These words are from her 1987 novel, "Beloved".) As the portrait pieces come and go, the representations of Morrison's face show her aging from young adulthood to the time the film was made, ending with pieces from a portrait taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the film's director.
- VerbindungenEdited into Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - Deleted Scenes (2019)
It celebrates greatness as a written language about the human experience, illustrated by a selection of Black creativity from artists such as Kara Walker to Kerry James Marshall. It reminds the viewer of America's ties to human slavery through the backdrop stories (historic references to Black slavery) of what inspired Morrison to write great novels from "Bluest Eyes" to "Beloved".
Greenfield-Sanders explores her hometown of Lorain, Ohio; Morrison's childhood experience of an ethnic diverse perception of America. Not using sensational nor romantic devices, Morrison 's story is told as her literary works, as an everyday experience. It topped with a dash of sobriety leaving the viewer to hear and see more.
This production also give a honest telling of Morrison's personal life towards her professional as well as artistic accomplishments. Full of archival interviews with the author from different decades of her life. It creates a myriad, but almost a kaleidoscope effect in viewing her various stages as a single mother, professional editor, literary agent to a visionary!
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- 11. Juli 2019
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- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 903.018 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 48.050 $
- 23. Juni 2019
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 927.495 $
- Laufzeit2 Stunden
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- 1.85 : 1