This is a film I think I’m going to need to see a few times. It is hard to follow, mostly due to its freeform nature, but you feel like you are there with Leon Russell in these moments and places. I don’t know much about Leon Russell, but it seems like he is the perfect person to profile in capturing this era of the early 1970s in Southern American music, art, and culture. The scene where the snake eats the bird and the VO that accompanies it is so poignant and hypnotic. I need to explore Russell’s music and work more as well. It seems crazy that it took 40 years to get the rights together to release this and for that makes it all the better.
