Watch: Nina 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone, including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson..
Plot: The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
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Wafer fin, badly chosen time period.
After the big hoo-ha about how bad this film is, in particular because of Zoe Saldana’s casting, I decided to give this movie a shot.I know virtually nothing about Nina Simone’s life, but this film does not want to portray what her life was during her prime. Instead it relies on itty bitty pieces of dialogue during interviews and conversations with Nina’s old friend Richard Pryor. It is set during the last decade of her life, when she is mentally ill, unstably alcoholic and very difficult to tolerate. Clifton (David Oyelowo), the nurse at the mental hospital where she is interred, takes her in, looks after her and eventually becomes her manager.
The real problem with this movie is, glaringly, the time period of Nina’s life. It’s not a good one, and very little happens in the movie. We start her off as a little girl defying racial segregation so that her parents can sit in the front row. Nothing else is shown of her rise to fame and struggles, which makes the film feel very empty.
One thing I really didn’t like is the erasure of Clifton’s homosexuality. Although he and Nina are not seen intimate with each other (at one point she calls him the F word when he refuses to have sex with her) there is a small implication. Why couldn’t they show everyone he was gay?
The last thing is of course Zoe Saldana as Nina. I personally feel the criticism (and it was extremely scornful) was very unfair. She did the best with what she was given, and she should be praised for it. The problem is not the color of her skin, its the age. She is supposed to be in her sixties, and yet Saldana is actually younger than David Oyelowo! They really couldn’t find an older actress?
At times the movie was painfully boring, badly paced and perhaps unintentionally funny. 5 out 10.
The performance, not the story!
Because, many were personally involved in Miss Simone’s life, it is easy to understand their annoyance; however, as a person that appreciates Miss Simone’s music, I put her on her own pedestal but; I must, in the other hand, contemplate, in total impartiality of judgment, Miss Zaldana’s performance, her singing was extraordinary and deserves to be valued independently. There is no comparison possible, for they are both different performers, and as such, must be valued separately. Perhaps, in relation to the portrayal of the character, there were marked unsubstantiated facts, this belongs to the screenwriters and playwrights or whoever. One must be fair and judge the acting and the singing of the artists.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Biography, Drama, Music
Director Cynthia Mort
Writer Cynthia Mort
Actors Zoe Saldana, David Oyelowo, Kevin Mambo
Country United Kingdom
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision B-Series Lenses
Laboratory EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema