Key Highlights
- “Off the record,” the unparallel portraitist says.
- “I haven’t touched the piano in four or five years now.” Then he sits and calls forth a sweet melody.
- The scene proves an early indicator of the many pleasures to come in director David Greaves’ inviting and, it turns out, vital film, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
- That moment with Van Der Zee is just the first of many in a documentary brimming with the wry and the wise, the thought-provoking and the deeply entertaining.
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