The Life, Love and Hate of a Free Jazz Man and His Woman (2020)
This is the story of Arthur Doyle, once a promising saxophonist in the New York school of Jazz' New Thing in the late 1960s and 1970s. Doyle, like many of his contemporaries, has struggled to maintain a healthy balance between life and music. The evidence of years spent pursuing a completely original sound is all around him. It is in his eyes, in his home and in the voices of his family. This film tells the story of a man who managed to live through his relationship with music. Now nearly 70, Doyle seems to be defying those forces that would keep him as a footnote in the history of American music.
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Overrated and overhyped
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.