Movies
Lisa Cortes
Little Richard: I Am Everything
USA 2023
101 min •
English. Finnish subtitles
K12
Theme: Rokumentti selection
19.11.2023 | Time 12:45
| Venue: Tapio 3
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A great documentary about a rock icon who revolutionized the world
Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archival footage, performances, and interviews, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.
In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.
