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José-Louis Bocquet: Josephine Baker (2017) 1 star

Josephine Baker (1906--1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the …

Obvious and clunky

1 star

This is the first graphic biography I've read that was an absolute slog to get through. Whenever new characters or situations are introduced, the dialog goes all clunky and obvious, like that scene in "Walk Hard" where Dewey Cox can't believe he's going to be meditating with the Beatles. "Your innovations are going to change jazz forever," pages and pages of bullshit like that.

Read the excellent "Agent Josephine : American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy" by Damien Lewis instead.