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‘Piece By Piece’ Review: An Animated Pharrell Williams Biopic Gets A LEGO Up On The Format – And It Works – Telluride Film Festival
A review of 'Piece By Piece" in which Pharrell Williams life is animated with LEGO bricks and an inventive form directed by documentarian Morgan Neville
The story beats count for a lot as we learn of the genius of Williams not just through his studio interview with Neville, but also numerous colleagues and collaborators including Gwen Stefani, Jay Z, Missy Elliott, Pusha T, Justin Timberlake, and more. I particularly loved a sequence where the ultra confident never-say-no side of the budding artist shows him going overboard in meetings with record label executives who didn’t quite feel the vibe, but you can bet Pharrell Williams did, even as Riley tells him to tone it down. The creation of his Oscar nominated “Happy” is a joyous sequence with Williams expressing surprise that the song took off globally in a way he didn’t expect, but then was followed by a darker period in his life and music with the advent of Black Lives Matter and a more serious realization about the state of the world and his place in it.
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