LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH (Sundance FF 2024) – Review by Leslie Combemale
Even after the popular Brit-crime TV show Luther, starring Idris Elba, aired, the moniker LUTHER meant only one thing. To this day, the name virtuosic singer/producer/songwriter Luther, Luther Vandross that is, belongs to a rare group of stars that the world knows using even just one name. Now documentarian Dawn Porter, who is responsible for award-winning films Bobby Kennedy for President, John Lewis: Good Trouble, and The Lady Bird Diaries, tells the story of Vandross’s formative early years, his career, and his adult life, in Luther: Never Too Much. A colossal talent lost before his time when he died of complications from a stroke and heart trouble at 52, the performer deserves every moment he and his genius is remembered onscreen.
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