Movie Review – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
Directed by George C. Wolfe.
Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Jeremy Shamos, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Michael Potts, and Dusan Brown.
SYNOPSIS:
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player, and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable “Mother of the Blues”.
In any other year under any other circumstance,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom would be yet another well-crafted, brilliantly acted adaptation of a Tony Award-winning play inevitably gunning for Oscars.
But it’s 2020, and while George C. Wolfe’s (
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) drama was wrapping up post-production in August, star Chadwick Boseman passed away unexpectedly from a cancer battle he chose to keep private.