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2012’s *Searching for Sugar Man* is on lots of services in the US and the UK
Imagine a world in which a Mexican-American singer-songwriter from Detroit with the soul of Bob Dylan and a voice that reels with rage and pain is huge. Bigger than the Beatles. Bigger than the Rolling Stones. He was the spirit of an entire generation decades ago, embodying their rebellion and their desire for a better world than the one they were given, and he remains a folk and artistic hero to this day. It sounds like an alternate universe, but it’s real… at least for the generation of South Africans who rebelled against apartheid and found their troubadour in singer-songwriter Rodriguez. The wholly extraordinary Searching for Sugar Man — Best Feature Documentary at the 2013 Oscars — starts when two South Africans, a rock journalist and a record-store owner, decided they wanted to find out what actually happened to their musical idol. Where it goes from there may blow your mind like it did mine. (Read my 2012 review.)
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