It's been 11 years since I began this series highlighting movies I
wished more people knew about. I'm rerunning it from the beginning
because I still think these are movies you might have missed.
In America we've never heard of Rodriguez, an enigmatic rock musician from the early 70's whose two records flopped. In South Africa, his records are bigger than Elvis. The legend surrounding him always includes a colorful death on stage ... by self immolation, pistol to the head, drug overdose, etc. Two South Africans set out to find out how Rodriguez died.
Why Rodriguez is so well known in South Africa is worth a movie of its own. When you include the discovery made by the men tracking down his legend, it propels this story into the "truth is stranger than fiction" category.
The documentary is put together like a well told piece of detective fiction and we were riveted by the story of the American musician we'd never heard of before.
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