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“it’s not nice?”
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
Avis de la communauté (1)
[DOK.fest '22] Through the footage of an interview with the musician Thelonious Monk in 1969, the film is a profound reflection on the manipulation of public representation. The confrontation between the social claim offered by Monk and the simplified remodeling intended by Renaud is built through uncomfortable gestures. The film redefines the musician against the stereotyped presentation, the man against the genius.