Troubled, controversial and self-destructive, Nina (2016) hits all the wrong notes.
Once again cleaering out the oldest recordings on my Sky box, I finally get around to Nina (2016), a biography of Nina Simone which hits all the wrong notes. #Review
By 1988, Nina Simone’s once glittering career is crumbling under the combined effects of financial troubles and her increasingly erratic mental health and alcoholism. After threatening a lawyer at gunpoint, she finds herself committed to a psychiatric hospital for twenty-four hours where she meets and befriends orderly Clifton Henderson, whom she hires as an assistant upon her discharge. Her…