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Don Cheadle portrays the fallen jazz legend in his excellent
new film Miles Ahead
A
lthough critically lauded as a talented and versatile actor, Don Cheadle has been
flitting on the periphery of mainstream movies for the past two decades. Most
casual moviegoers don’t recognize his name, though they may recognize
Cheadle’s face from Iron Man 2, Showtime’s House of Lies or Steven
Soderbergh’s Traffic, one of several films (including the 1998 political satire
Bulworth) for which he deserved but never received an Oscar nod (he was nominated for
his role in Hotel Rwanda).
This is too bad. Cheadle, as an actor, has a rare gift: He is intense and gritty yet
intimately approachable, and his performances carry equal parts explosive threat and
casual humor, drawing viewers into the edgy territories his characters typically inhabit.
Cheadle turns these qualities to fantastic use in his new film, Miles Ahead, an offbeat
biopic about legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.
Co-written and directed by Cheadle, who also stars as the man himself, Miles Ahead plays
fast and loose with the staid formula of the biopic. Taking his cues from the wild improvisations
that characterized Davis’ mid-career work, Cheadle gangsterizes the story, which opens in the
mid-’70s with Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (the adorably scruffy Ewan McGregor)
interviewing the coke-addled legend, who has been “retired” for the past five years.
Jumping back and forth from this debauched retirement to Davis’ breakthrough in the
mid-1940s, the film paints a jittery, semi-fictionalized portrait of a great artist in free fall,
as Davis and Brill get in a series of tragicomic scrapes: They fight, score coke and then
spend most of the movie hunting down — through lowbrow car chases and sloppy gun
fights — the stolen session tapes that Columbia Records is clamoring for and which will
prove Davis’ big comeback.
Davis was a genius, but he was also one badass motherfucker — nasty, brutish and
obscene — and Cheadle inhabits the role completely, turning his voice into a baritone hiss
of impossible cool while his eyes shoot daggers of desire and contempt into every corner.
He’s surely to get an Oscar nomination for the performance, though not for the usual
reasons of facile imitation and heroic grand gestures. Cheadle gives Davis a humanity and
fallibility that, ironically, comprise the finest tribute to his immortal status.
More importantly, Miles Ahead sidesteps the typical pitfalls of biopics, which routinely
treat the life of their subjects as a greatest-hits collection, moving rapidly from highs and
lows over the course of a whole life while failing to put meat and bones on the people they
end up merely exploiting. The film has no ax to grind other than providing a glimpse into
psyche of a tortured artist: The film depicts racism, but it is not about racism; it is suffused
with drugs, but it is not about addiction.
At one point during an interview, Davis snaps at Brill, telling him not to call what he
does “jazz.” Brill asks him what he’d prefer. “Call it social music,” Davis says with
inimitable hipness. The movie should be considered similarly: It’s less a biographical
portrait than a meditation on music and life, and as such it moves with the jagged bleats,
searing squeals and surprising transitions of Davis’ music itself.
By focusing on a very brief span of time, and doing so with a creative use of montage
and surrealism, Cheadle ends up giving us a deeper, richer understanding of what drove
Davis to make such timeless music: his loves, his hates, his demons, his desires. Perhaps
the finest compliment I can pay is that, after watching this film, you’ll be digging out your
copy of Kind of Blue.
Or maybe Bitches Brew. ■
Miles Ahead opens Friday, April 22, at Broadway Metro.
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