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'Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)' Review: Questlove's Revelatory 1969 Harlem-Concert Documentary

by Owen Gleiberman

In "Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)," which opened the Sundance Film Festival tonight on a note of heady historical exuberance, we see images from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, and they're like dream visions of a promised land. An ocean of Black faces, stretching back like something out of […]

SOURCE: Variety at 6:09am on January 29, 2021