Inna de Yard - The Soul of Jamaica (2019)

Original title

Inna de Yard

Directed by

Peter Webber

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

6

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of veteran Jamaican reggae musicians record an acoustic album together in Saint Andrew Parish. The film shows them making music and performing, and also tells the history of Jamaican reggae.

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What happens

Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica is a 2019 music documentary film about Jamaican reggae music, written and directed by Peter Webber. The film is based around the recording of an album in Kingston, Jamaica by Jamaican reggae music veterans. It also "doubles as a capsule history of Jamaican reggae" and shows the band performing the songs at a concert at Le Trianon in Paris. The musical supergroup, a project also called Inna De Yard, is shown collaborating on recording an acoustic album of old songs by each of the musicians, in Saint Andrew Parish in 2017. Inna De Yard had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. It showed at Sydney Film Festival the same year. As of October 2021, 94% of the 17 reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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