From age 10 till 30, Aretha Franklin sure could sing, but she hadn’t yet found her voice. At least, that’s the take served up in “Respect,” a solid if somewhat conventional feature directing debut …
as the First Lady of Soul’s younger self. That’s not to say that “Respect” is pure hagiography, even if the title makes clear that Tommy intends for audiences to emerge with a deeper appreciation of the personal struggles — as well as the triumphs — that shaped Franklin’s signature sound.
It’s not as if Franklin’s life suddenly simplified after the making of “Amazing Grace,” which was filmed by director Sydney Pollack for a documentary whose release Franklin blocked for decades, remaining unseen by the public until after her death in 2018.
The song “Respect” may be an all-time-great empowerment anthem, but the Aretha who sings it here hasn’t yet learned to live by its words. Hudson’s Aretha seems too intimidated to speak up much of the time, letting Ted — who elbowed C.L. out of the way as manager, and balled his fists whenever he got angry — make the decisions.
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