This film offers a unique and intimate view of Bob Marley through a combination of personal interviews and recently resurfaced, lost footage filmed by Esther Anderson. As a successful actress Anderson, starred in several roles, including opposite Sindey Poitier in A Warm December, she is an honored NAACP Image Award winner and throughout the years has been accomplished in both the film and music industry. Needless to say, during the time period of their love affair both Esther Anderson and Bob Marley's stars were rising in many ways during the same time period they had shared together. If one ever desired to be the proverbial "fly on the wall" during one of Bob Marley's creative sessions this film offers this opportunity and the delightfully unexpected as well. Anderson and Marley were involved in both a creative and intimate love affair during his rise to fame and what makes the film endearing is that it is revealed through both this raw footage as well as the personal experiences of Esther Anderson who is best suited to explain the significance of the footage which she 'herself' had filmed so many years ago. This film is not a taste of a "commercialized" Bob Marley and the Wailers, it is revealed as pure and organic as the Rastafarian spirit itself.
Review of Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
