It took forty-three years for Bob Marley, one of the most charismatic figures of the 20th century, to be the subject of a biopic.
Directors as experienced as Martin Scorsese or Oliver Stone (apologies) have broken their teeth there.
Bob Marley.
One Love
is on screens thanks to the determination of American director Reinaldo Marcus Green.
We will be grateful to him for not having covered the thirty-six years of the singer's life - which plagues the majority of biopics - to concentrate on a few decisive years of his life and his career: the sequence which goes from 1976 to 1978 .
“This period is rich, between the assassination attempt on his person, the political context of Jamaica and his great creativity, illustrated by the album
Exodus
, one of the musical masterpieces of the last century.
“It’s also at this time that we detect the cancer that will take him away
,” explains Reinaldo Marcus Green in a Parisian hotel room.
“I was in the right place at the right time
,” adds…
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