Searching for Sugar Man

[LouieB]

Agreed.  I re-watched the film last Friday with my wife, a few days after writing my earlier posts about Lefsetz.  While watching, I kept one eye on whether I had been too generous towards the film.  I think it's fair to observe that the film is skimpy on certain facts, and perhaps guilty of cherry-picking for simplicity's sake without acknowledging that more happened outside of the frame, but overall I think its omissions are justifiable--as you said, the story told is a particular one, and that story centers on Rodriguez's unique relationship to South Africa, not his entire career.  It might be slightly (inadvertently?) misleading, but not in a nefarious way that undermines the intended story.

I totally agree with this. I had not seen this post until I looked today regarding the story below. There was something very unsatisfying about the movie. It glosses over some of the possible reasons for Rodriguez's failure to make it bigger than he did and also undermines his current success and what he did to overcome his problems in the mean time. It was an okay movie because the basic story is so compelling, but ultimately loses something.

 

 

Malik Bendjelloul, the director, committed suicide:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/movies/malik-bendjelloul-36-dies-directed-sugar-man-movie.html?_r=0

Bummer.

 

LouieB