Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man
Sixto Rodriguez sulla copertina dell'album Coming from Reality in una scena del film
Titolo originaleSearching for Sugar Man
Paese di produzioneRegno Unito, Svezia
Anno2012
Durata86 min
Generedocumentario, biografico, musicale
RegiaMalik Bendjelloul
SceneggiaturaMalik Bendjelloul
ProduttoreSimon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul, George Chignell, Nicole Stott, Malla Grapengiesser
Produttore esecutivoJohn Battsek
Casa di produzioneRed Box Films, Passion Pictures, Canfield Pictures, The Documentary Company, Hysteria Film
Distribuzione in italianoI Wonder Pictures
FotografiaCamilla Skagerström
MontaggioMalik Bendjelloul, Berhard Winkler
MusicheRodriguez
Interpreti e personaggi

Searching for Sugar Man è un documentario del 2012 scritto, diretto, co-prodotto e co-montato da Malik Bendjelloul, incentrato sulla figura del cantautore statunitense Sixto Rodriguez.

Trama

Nel Sudafrica dell'apartheid, attraverso una serie di bootleg, a sua insaputa un cantautore riesce a imporsi nella cultura giovanile del Paese grazie ai suoi testi socialmente consapevoli: il suo album d'esordio, Cold Fact, diviene presto un disco cult. Di questo cantautore però, non si conosce praticamente nulla: oltre al nome riportato sulla copertina, Rodriguez, è noto il solo fatto che sia nato negli Stati Uniti. Due suoi fan sudafricani iniziano una lunga indagine alla ricerca delle radici del loro mito, che si crede morto in seguito a un presunto e clamoroso suicidio avvenuto sul palco dopo un concerto.

Produzione

Distribuzione

Il film è stato presentato in anteprima italiana il 7 giugno 2013 al Biografilm Festival di Bologna ed è stato distribuito in Italia da I Wonder Pictures all'interno della Unipol Biografilm Collection con il titolo Sugar Man.

Accoglienza

Accolto positivamente fin dall'anteprima al Sundance Film Festival, dove ha vinto il premio speciale della giuria e il premio del pubblico per la sezione documentari internazionali, ha raccolto svariati premi in giro per il mondo, culminati nella vittoria dell'Oscar 2013 al miglior documentario.

Searching for Sugar Man ha ottenuto 3.696.196 milioni di dollari al box office USA, piazzandosi tra i maggiori documentari statunitensi dell'anno al botteghino.[1]

Colonna sonora

Nel film sono presenti le seguenti quattordici canzoni scritte e cantate da Sixto Rodriguez. Sono inoltre presenti i brani Time Lapse Variations di Per Störby, eseguito da New Tango Orquesta, e Sit Dit Af di Johannes Kerkorrel, eseguita dalla Gereformeerde Blues Band.

L'album contenente la colonna sonora, pubblicato nel 2012, a differenza del film contiene la canzone Like Janis invece di Forget It.

Tracce

  1. Sugar Man
  2. Crucify Your Mind
  3. Cause
  4. I Wonder
  5. Jane S. Piddy
  6. This Is Not a Song. It's an Outburst: or, The Establishment Blues
  7. Can't Get Away
  8. I Think of You
  9. Inner City Blues
  10. Sandrevan Lullaby - Lifestyles
  11. Street Boy
  12. A Most Disgusting Song
  13. Forget It
  14. I'll Sleep Away

Riconoscimenti

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Candidatura migliore musica originale a Malik Bendjelloul e Sixto Rodriguez

Note

  1. ^ (EN) Searching for Sugar Man on Box Office Mojo, in Box Office Mojo. URL consultato il 14 giugno 2014.

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