With Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” earning rave reviews and a ton of money at the box office, another rock star biopic, the TIFF-premiering “Chevalier,” is hoping to find similar success—only the star of this historical drama predates rock and roll by nearly two hundred years.
READ MORE: ‘Chevalier’ Review: An Electric Kelvin Harrison Jr. Can’t Quite Save The Biopic Clichés Of A Revisionist Black Mozart [TIFF] The subject of “Chevalier” is Joseph Bologne (later Chevalier de Saint-Georges), a French-Caribbean violinist and composer who took the Parisian music scene by storm in the second half of the 18th century.
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