MISS SHARON JONES film review

– By Cate Marquis –

MISS SHARON JONES has it all

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

You may not have heard of soul singer Sharon Jones but you may have heard her catchy, bluesy tune “100 Days, 100 Nights” this past summer. The tune was used on a TV commercial and if your musical tastes are at all like mine, you too may have thought, ‘Hooo, who is that, and where can I get her albums.” Even if you missed that ear-worm song, once you see this ball-of-fire belt out a song, dancing up a storm all the while, you won’t forget her.

“Miss Sharon Jones!” is the way her band, the Dap Kings, introduce this remarkable singer to the audience at their concerts. It is also the name of a new documentary directed by Barbara Kopple. Kopple is a skilled documentarian, whose 1976 Oscar-winning HARLEN COUNTY, USA focused on a Kentucky miners’ strike and kept the cameras rolling as police fired rifles into crowds of strikers, a film considered by many critics one of the best labor films ever made.

MISS SHARON JONES! explodes with music and energy every time the dynamic Miss Jones belts one out, but the real focus of Kopple’s film is Jones’ battle with cancer. The cancer struck at a particularly bad time, just as Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings where on the verge of releasing a highly-anticipated album and the wider success they had long worked towards.

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http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2016/09/miss-sharon-jones/