A surprising story and dramatic storytelling makes Searching For Sugar Man documentary to remember Hearing the music of ‘70s rock musician Rodriguez for the first time in filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul’s fascinating and rousing documentary Searching For Sugar Man, is an uplifting experience, and yet, that’s only part of the amazing story. After a fading music career beset by poor record sales and rumors of his death, bootleg copies of his U.S. albums makes the Detroit-based Rodriguez an unexpected superstar in South Africa. Bendjelloul travels throughout South Africa to find the mystery behind Rodriguez’s growing South African fan base and his journey leads him to an unbelievable revelation and the most unusual comeback in music history. Making his feature-length filmmaking debut after directing a series of acclaimed short documentaries, Bendjelloul creates Searching For Sugar Man as a road trip story, a true-life mystery, a musical doc and a concert film.
- 8/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A surprising story and dramatic storytelling makes Searching For Sugar Man documentary to remember Hearing the music of ‘70s rock musician Rodriguez for the first time in filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul’s fascinating and rousing documentary Searching For Sugar Man, is an uplifting experience, and yet, that’s only part of the amazing story. After a fading music career beset by poor record sales and rumors of his death, bootleg copies of his U.S. albums makes the Detroit-based Rodriguez an unexpected superstar in South Africa. Bendjelloul travels throughout South Africa to find the mystery behind Rodriguez’s growing South African fan base and his journey leads him to an unbelievable revelation and the most unusual comeback in music history. Making his feature-length filmmaking debut after directing a series of acclaimed short documentaries, Bendjelloul creates Searching For Sugar Man as a road trip story, a true-life mystery, a musical doc and a concert film.
- 8/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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