Date/Time
Friday 31 May 2024
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Categories Film
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In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums.
Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero’s fate.
What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction labourer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.
Documentary directed in 2012 by Malik Benjelloul starring Rodriguez as himself.
95% Tomatometer rating at Rotten Tomatoes
Watch the trailer on YouTube:
Running time: 1hr 26mins
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