Rewind and Play

This could have been a great documentary but it spectacularly felt short of that. The angle take by the director is full of bad faith. Spending one hour where you see a great pianist player getting a bad interview isn't racism, it's just what it is. When looking at this documentary I find the director to have a strong color filter when seeing people, if Monk or the interviewer where the same color this would still have been a painful interview as the interview team is badly prepared. That's it. I hope this empty documentary wasn't funded by peoples' taxes...

Overall you see faces, awkward questions from the media team, Monk playing or at a cafe and the director manipulating the rushes to push it's agenda. The emptiness of this documentary was a shock and the fact it has received nominations even more. This says a lot on the state of this great genre and the problems our society faces. Anyway no need to waste your time on that, better listen to Monk vinyls or watch YouTube documentaries about him, you will learn so much more.