Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Viola Davis stars as the real life “Mother of the Blues” Gertrude Rainey alongside Chadwick Boseman in his final role as the enterprising trumpet player Levee.
The film is based on the 1984 work written by Wilson, the award-winning playwright behind Fences and The Piano Lesson.Set in 1927 Chicago, the story starts with Rainey as she arrives late to a recording session and greets a controlling white manager and an impatient band, who’s being fueled by Levee’s ambitions to unseat Rainey from her Blues throne.What follows is a misogynistic and creative battle as Rainey fights for full control of her sonic legacy as the men around the Blues queen see her actions as symptoms of her Blackness and womanhood, instead of.
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