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| Dressed in the colors of the Jamaican flag, the instantly recognizable face of Bob Marley makes up the poster for Kevin Macdonald's Marley |
An outsider at home due to his mulatto skin from a mixed-race parentage, Bob Marley of Trenchtown, Jamaica nevertheless became beloved by people all over the world due to his fantastic reggae songs.
Marley is a biographical documentary by great Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Chaplin's Goliath (1996, documentary)).
It is an intense and fantastically comprehensive documentary of perhaps one of the most convincing, prophet-like figures of the 20th centuries. It is full of rich testimony from those closest to the icon, as his music and goodness inspires persuasively.
Macdonald has his focus set on the universal, spiritual heights in Marley's life, which he reflects with beautiful fly-over images from fertile mountain ranges (possibly from Jamaica's Blue Mountains.) Marley is a long but outstanding bio-documentary, which moves deeply.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: 5.3 mil. $
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[Marley premiered 12 February (Berlin International Film Festival) and runs 145 minutes. It opened #19 to a 262k $ first weekend in 42 theaters in North America, where it peaked in 73 theaters and grossed 1.4 mil. $ (26.4 % of the total gross). The film's biggest market was the UK with 1.4 mil. $ (26.4 %), North America 2nd biggest and 3rd biggest was Italy with 283k $ (5.3 %). The film was nominated for a BAFTA, a British Independent Film award and a Grammy, among other honors. The-Numbers.com further estimate that it made 6.4 mil. $ on the video market. Macdonald returned with How I Live Now (2013). Marley is certified fresh at 95 % with a 7.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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