Sing Your Song

Name: Sing Your Song
Director: Susanne Rostock
Released: 2012

Susanne Rostock

2012

Synopsis

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

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The New York Times
The revelations keep coming in Sing Your Song and it's hard not to go googly eyed when, for a 1963 CBS special, you see Mr. Belafonte discussing the march on Washington with some fellow marchers, Mr. Poitier, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Charlton Heston and the film director Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
90
Salon
Most famously, Belafonte ignited immense controversy both within and without the black community by repeatedly suggesting that Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were the "house slaves" of the George W. Bush administration.
80
New York Daily News
Belafonte still finds ways to address injustice - and now we have over 50 years of his example to follow and his music to enjoy.
70
Variety
Moving and enlightening as it serves up a crash-course in 20th-century history.
70
Los Angeles Times
Really more of an effusive autobiography of the 84-year-old singer-actor than a traditional documentary, so be prepared for something close to sainthood in its tone.
70
Movieline
It's valuable for both the vintage footage Rostock has collected and for the observations provided by Belafonte, who is as charming, handsome and persuasive in his mid-80s as he ever was.
63
Slant Magazine
It's likely, then, that the film was directed by Susanne Rostock the same way Belfonte's new memoir, My Song, was written with Vanity Fair's Michael Shnayerson: to articulate, polish, and edit what the vociferous and at times alarmingly honest Belfonte wants to tell us without injuring his credibility outside of the left any further.
60
Time Out
There's a more courageous profile waiting to be made by someone who understands the man better.