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Amazing Grace: Inside the hellish struggle to release Aretha Franklin's heavenly concert movie

Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2019

IT MIGHT SEEM odd to suggest that the most enthralling film you are likely to see this year is not a thriller, a love story or the latest CGI blockbuster, but a documentary filmed 47 years ago in a small Los Angeles church, which has been sitting on a shelf more or less since the day it was made. But not so odd, perhaps, when you consider the subject of the film is Aretha Franklin.

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