Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an intimate look at the life of the titular American icon by famed photographer/documentarian – and Morrison’s friend of over three-and-a-half decades – Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. This collaborative closeness between the filmmaker and his Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning subject proves critical, beyond merely allowing for unguarded access. In a swift-moving two hours Greenfield-Sanders (The Black List, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart) manages to painstakingly and lovingly pack every «piece» of his dear friend that the Morrison fan and uninitiated alike would ever need in order to grasp her transformative effect on literature – redefining who gets to tell whose story – around the globe.
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