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'El Gran Fellove': Film Review | San Sebastian 2020

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In a Mexico City recording studio in 1999, the planets aligned. At the center of the jubilant cross-cultural, intergenerational music sessions was Francisco Fellove Valdés, stage name El Gran Fellove, who half a century earlier had combined Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz to create a new style of scat singing.

Overseeing the project was Joey Altruda, a Los Angeles-based bandleader and producer, and filming the event "guerrilla-style" was his pal Matt Dillon, who was fresh off the success of There's Something About Mary and hadn't yet directed a feature.

The fate of those recorded tracks is revealed at the end of the 20-years-in-the-making El Gran Fellove, Dillon's second film as a director (after the 2002 narrative feature City of Ghosts).

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