Way Down in Harmony, With Mythic Blues Again
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
“Honeydripper,”John Sayles’s shambling fusion of pop mythology and social mosaic, imagines the world-changing moment, around 1950, in the rural South when a blues guitarist first plugged in his ax and rocked the joint.
That cultural harbinger, Sonny Blake (Gary Clark Jr.), is an itinerant, freight-train-hopping young guitar wiz with no particular place to go, who stops off at the sleepy little town of Harmony, Ala. His instrument, cut from a solid woodblock and lacking a sound hole, emits rock ’n’ roll lightning at the Honeydripper, a dilapidated roadhouse on the verge of going out of business. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4027 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 28 dicembre 2007
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