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Misty: The Erroll Garner Story

A portrait of jazz pianist Erroll Garner.

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The jazz standard “Misty” has been interpreted many times and was the foundation for Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut, the psychodrama PLAY MISTY FOR ME. Of course, a film about the superb jazz pianist Erroll Garner would be named after his most known composition. Director Georges Gachot begins his doc-portrait in a thoroughly conventional way, taking you through Garner's biographical stages and features companions, in particular bassist Ernest McCarty and Garner biographer Jim Doran. They focus on the musical field, authenticated by a lot of archive recordings that illustrate Garner's genius. Starting with a song, he improvised freely. We see him at the piano, practically fused to the keys, eyes looking out into the distance, the sweat on his face. He never played his songs the same way, giving himself over to the moment, the inspiration.

With Garner’s daughter Kim and his last wife Rosalyn Noisette, Gachot widens his perspective on his private side: the seperation from Kim’s mother, the denial of his daughter, and Rosalyn, with whom he lived until his death without mentioning her in his will. These are biographical details that quietly touch on the depths of his personality, and also point to the harshness of his manager Martha Glaser, who ran the business with a firm hand (and also kept Garner in a bubble that largely excluded racist attacks, while other jazz greats had to endure hostility again and again). These two aspects – music and life – often run parallel to each other, but they determine each other: the devotion, the emotion, the soul that he put in his music - in the fast runs, in the rhythmic turbulence, in the expressive melodic lines – they come from his life.

Harald Mühlbeyer

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Schweiz/Frankreich/Deutschland 2024, 100 min
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Director: Georges Cachot
Author: Georges Gachot, Paolo Poloni
DOP: Filip Zumbrunn
Music: Ernest McCarty, Nils Petter Molvaer
Distributor: CCC Cologne Cine Collective
Release: 23.01.2025

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Misty: The Erroll Garner Story

Schweiz/Frankreich/Deutschland 2024 | Documentary | R: Georges Cachot

A portrait of jazz pianist Erroll Garner.

Screenings

Charlottenburg

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OmU14:00

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25.02. – Tue

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Wilmersdorf

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19.02. – Wed

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24.02. – Mon

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