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Rating: There's a movie, several years old, which I never particularly loved.
A film based on a book - by Manuel Puig I believe, brought to the stage multiple times.
Kiss of the Spider Woman.
I first saw it in the theater and I liked it a lot. Much more than the movie, which came out several years later, with Sonia Braga, if I remember correctly.
It's a dramatic story, but with unexpected twists. It talks about two men in prison, in one of the thousand prisons in South America some years back. One of them is gay. The other a political prisoner. And it talks about the seduction of the first towards the second.
Year 1956.
Charlie Parker died the year before.
Miles published the four masterpieces with the first quintet (steamin', relaxin', cookin', those ones). It's not yet Kind Of Blue, but it's not far off.
Mingus has just spit out Pithecanthropus. As if to say, there's no competition for anyone.
Monk is churning out masterpieces one after the other.
A young saxophonist, John Coltrane, is beginning to make a name for himself. He will take music, his instrument, to realms he doesn’t even imagine yet.
Lester is not young. Lester is short on time. He's worn himself out with his unruly life. He drank, smoked, tried everything.
He's under fifty, but he knows he doesn't have much time left.
It doesn't take the paranormal powers he believes he possesses to understand this. A mirror is enough.
But it’s 1956. And Prez, the President, meets the Marxist Mozart, Teddy Wilson.
They form a quartet. They record two albums. This is the second one.
They're jazz standards. Plus an unreleased one. Pres Returns.
There's a movie, several years old, which I never particularly loved.
In the finale - different from the book, different from the one seen in the theater - Sonia Braga, the girlfriend of the political prisoner, now destined for death, manages to enter the prison.
She injects something into her boyfriend.
A lake, a boat. The prisoner rows gently. Sonia Braga looks at him, in love.
Sonia's voiceover says è tutto quello che posso darti. Un sogno breve, ma un sogno sereno.
End credits.
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