Miles & Juliette: When jazz and drama mix like coffee with milk
Attention, lovers of jazz, cheesy cinema and biopics that promise more passion than a soap opera at 3 in the afternoon! Because it turns out that Damson Idris and Anamaria Vartolomei will step into the shoes of Miles Davis and Juliette Gréco, respectively, in a film that, if it were an album, would be titled “Love, trumpets and Parisian clichés”. Directed by Bill Pohland (yes, that name you don’t recognize but that sounds important), the film promises to portray the romance between the jazz genius and the French muse as if no one had ever filmed a love story in Paris before. How original!
Produced by Mick Jagger, because who better than a rocker to understand jazz?
Here comes the best part: the production company behind this project is Jagged Films, owned by Mick Jagger (yes, the one from the Rolling Stones) and Victoria Pearlman. Because, of course, if there is anyone who understands the essence of jazz, it is a guy who has been shouting “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” for 60 years. But don’t worry, jazz purists, because Davis’ family gave their blessing. In other words, this will be as authentic as a Parisian bistro… in Las Vegas.
The film, which will feature original music by Robert Glasper (a detail that music-loving film buffs will appreciate), will try to sell at Cannes, that place where artistic cinema and photos for Instagram coexist in harmony. Of course, if they sell it well, they will start filming this year. If not, well, they can always turn it into a documentary for Netflix titled “Miles Davis: The algorithm recommends this drama to you.”.
The script, written by Zora Howard, follows Davis on his trip to Paris in 1949, where he meets Gréco and, it seems, discovered that love hurts more than a poorly executed trumpet solo. Will it be a deep story about art and passion? Or just an excuse to put scenes in the rain with jazz music in the background? Time (and Rotten Tomatoes reviews) will tell.
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