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This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
Leave your thoughts about Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt reminds us how long she had to wait for the recognition she so richly deserved, and what a distinctive, generous, funny, astute, self-doubting, unstoppable and formidable figure she was along the way. |
| Time OutHelen O'HaraShe’s charming, authoritative, and ferociously intelligent. ‘I think she captured the essence of what it means to be human, to be alive and to be here on this Earth,’ says Winfrey. She’s speaking about one of Morrison’s characters, but it goes double for the author. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinTo have the towering Morrison, now 88, willing to face your cameras — head on, in fact — and tell her story as candidly, heartily and humanely as she does here, is a singular gift that keeps on giving throughout the film’s two captivating hours. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe decidedly defiant grande dame of African American literature is shown here as an intellectual and creative dynamo who, at the age of 88, shows zero signs of deceleration; if anything, she appears to be just getting warmed up. Haters beware. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperToni Morrison is an absolutely beautiful wordsmith and a beautiful force on multiple fronts, and if this documentary is an unabashed love letter to her life and work, I say: Why. Not. |
| The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMuch of the film’s pleasure is in hearing Morrison speak. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Melissa VincentThe Pieces I Am is compellingly organized and like much of Morrison’s writing, forces the viewer to think carefully to keep up. |
| EmpireNikki BaughanA celebratory portrait of author Toni Morrison painted by those who knew her, this compelling documentary also explores how her work gives such a powerful voice to the African American experience. |
| CineVueJohn BleasdaleTimothy Greenfield-Sanders’ timely documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning novelist is a persuasive argument for rereading Morrison if you’ve already read her works – and if you haven’t, an imperative to get to it. |
| The Irish TimesTara BradyAppealing documentary of the Nobel Prize-winning author has fascinating details. |
