Miles Ahead

Winner
Directors to Watch
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Purists may howl, but they'll also miss the pleasure and point of this playfully impressionistic movie.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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Miles Ahead

MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle's bravura directorial debut is not a conventional bio-pic but rather a unique, no-holds barred portrait of a singular artist in crisis.

In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis (Cheadle) virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past.
R
Genre
Bio-pic, Drama, Music
Runtime
100
Language
English
Director
Don Cheadle
Cast
Ewan McGregor
Awards:
Winner, Directors to Watch, Palm Springs International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Stephen Whitty, New York Daily News

The overall, unpredictable wildness of the film feels right for its subject, though. And Cheadle — who studied the sax before he turned to acting — absolutely inhabits the trumpeter. The heavy-lidded eyes, the long papery fingers, the tobacco-scoured voice — everything about him is authentic. And ...

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