Director: Spike Lee
Duration: 129'
Language: English
Subtitles: Chinese
Categories: Group C (For audiences aged 13 and above only, but not suitable for age under 18)
Financially irresponsible Giant manages a jazz group, but his saxophone player, Shadow, wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleek Gilliam, the band’ s trumpeter, then tries to defend his close friend Giant, leading to a power struggle between the two musicians. Meanwhile, as Bleek tries to straighten things out with his band mates and manager, he also must choose to be with either sweet teacher Indigo or sultry singer Clarke. With the threatens to tear apart the quartet, Bleek starts making questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues follows a period in the life of fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardising both his relationships and his playing career. The film also features the music of the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard on trumpet, who also plays for the character Bleek Gilliam .
Guest Speaker: Anson Ng
Anson Ng is the manager of the Macao bookstore “Pin-to Livros & Musica”, and columnist of the “Listen to sound all around” column of the Macao Daily News. He is also the manager of Node Culture from Taiwan, which has the proxy rights for around 40 music brands from all over the world. The company also plans and organizes musical performances in four regions across two straits. Anson used to be team leader and senior purchasing agent in the music section of the Taiwan Eslite bookstore.
