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1935. Il est un lieu de rêve où l'alcool et l'argent du jeu coulent à flots, où des filles peu farouches ne demandent qu'à danser toute la nuit. Niché dans la petite bourgade d'Idlewild, Géorgie, ce club s'appelle l'"Église".Percival s'y rend chaque soir pour jouer du piano, oublier un métier tuant et un père dominateur et envahissant. Un jour, il y rencontre la belle Angel, une chanteuse dont il tombe amoureux fou. Serait-ce enfin l'occasion de quitter Idlewild pour Chicago et tenter sa chance dans le showbiz ?
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Rooster, le gérant de l'Église, est le meilleur ami du timide Percy, et son exact opposé. Il a fort à faire pour tenir son personnel et sa très remuante clientèle, et sa situation devient franchement intenable lorsque le gangster Trumpy met le grappin sur son établissement. Mais ne serait-ce pas enfin l'occasion de se ranger et de retourner dans le giron de sa famille ?
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This movie is fun.
Author: mvegas893-1 from United States
4 September 2006
It is a highly stylized slice of life. As usual, reading through the comments left here, I'm finding that many just can't leave their pretense at the door. It would seem that any film with an all African-American cast set in the American south is required to beat us over the head with an idea we are all (I would hope) aware of. ie; Jim Crow sucked. Instead, this film simply portrays people with hopes and dreams, faults and virtues, capable of love and hate, good and evil. in other words, people. Not "black people".
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That was refreshing. (and, IMHO, a far stronger statement than one could ever make through heavy-handed symbolism) Is the film perfect? Far from it. The plot is in many ways pedestrian. The film telegraphs plot twists rather than foreshadowing them. However, are there flashes of brilliance? Good Lord yes. These are two astonishingly talented men (Andre and Big Boi) and simply as a showcase for that talent, this film succeeds. If you just sit down and let the film wash over you, you will enjoy. If you over-think, and ask it to be something it isn't, you won't. It's that simple.
