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CinemaBlend
Feb. 23. 2021 12:12 AM
The United States vs. Billie Holiday doesnât so much feel like a film based on a screenplay as much as it does a series of index cards pinned to a corkboard.
Starring:
Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Melvin Gregg, Natasha Lyonne
Written By:
Suzan-Lori Parks
The United States vs. Billie Holiday doesnât so much feel like a film based on a screenplay as much as it does a series of index cards pinned to a corkboard.
Every biopic trying to capture the life of an individual faces the exact same inherent problem: an individualâs life doesnât play out like a traditional story. Awareness of this frequently leads filmmakers to go the route of identifying and playing out a meaningful event that encapsulates who a person was, but every so often there are movies that aim to just try and squeeze a whole existence into 120 or so minutes. The great risk, naturally, is creating what functions less like a narrative, and more l