Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton
Synopsis:
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music. Produced in partnership with the Marley family and starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary musician and Lashana Lynch as his wife Rita.
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Film Review |
Whether it’s a top-tier music biopic such as “Ray” or “Walk the Line” or “Straight Outta Compton," or just-OK fare along the lines of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” I often find myself cueing up the catalog of the featured performer(s) in the days and weeks after the screening. It’s only natural, yes? The movies get you in the mood to hear the original recordings, to revisit the greatness of the movie’s subject.
This is particularly the case with the straightforward and conventional, yet consistently involving, “Bob Marley: One Love,” with Kingsley Ben-Adir turning in a screen-commanding performance as the legendary reggae pioneer who was just 36 when he died of cancer in 1981. Even when the camerawork goes overboard in framing Marley as a Christlike figure, even when we’re ticking off nearly every scene in the Music Biopic Playbook, we know there’s always another concert or recording scene around the corner — and every time the cinematic interpretations of Bob Marley and the Wailers start to play, we’re moving with the infectious rhythms and soaking in the poetry and meaning of the lyrics.
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