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From Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, Finding Fela takes a look at Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti and how his life and music inspired an entire continent and brought Pan Africanist politics to the world.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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59%- Reviews Counted: 46
- Fresh: 27
- Rotten: 19
- Average Rating: 6.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Maybe it's a tall order for any conventional documentary to get its arms around a man whose 30-minute-plus jams routinely broke free of their moorings.
Rotten: The abundance of his funky, inspirational music included in the film becomes numbing -- an unfortunate result for such a complicated, passionate pop figure.
Fresh: Once it gets going, it's fine, a somewhat scattered precis of the life and accomplishment of one of the 20th century's towering musicians, activists, and curiosities.
Fresh: The early songs are a celebration; the later music is a weapon. It would be nice to get more of both, but for that there are the reissued CDs, not to mention this film's soundtrack, a decent sampler.
- Genre: Documentary
- Expected Release: Oct 31, 2014
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