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Article: MEMPHIS MELODY HAS LOVELORN REFRAIN.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 7, 2005
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
'FORTY SHADES of Blue'' was a controversial Grand Jury Prize winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
You can tell why some disagreed with the choice. Not much happens in the movie, and what plot there is involves a soap-operatic triangle between a Russian immigrant, the much-older man she lives with and his estranged adult son.
Furthermore, Alan James (Rip Torn) is an esteemed elder of the Memphis music scene, a sort of Sam Phillips figure who's proud as can be of his efforts to merge African-American and hillbilly music into a popular international art form. But although the movie is soaked with great ...