A true American rap legend, Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. entered the legend both for the quality of his songs and for his tragic assassination on March 9, 1997. While the circumstances of his murder have resulted in many documentaries, the crime remains unsolved to date, few films have brought to light the life and personality of the one who was also nicknamed Biggie.
It is therefore in order to draw an authentic portrait of the rapper that his mother Violetta Wallace and his friend Sean Combs (a.k.a. P. Diddy) decided to produce this feature film by Emmett Malloy (also director of the documentaries The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights and Jack White: Kneeling At the Anthem D.C.). The result of a four-year work, the Netflix film offers many unpublished images, with the intervention of many relatives of the rapper, childhood friends or collaborators who have met him during his short but intense musical career.
NetflixFocused more on Christopher Wallace than on his alter-ego Notorious B.I.G., Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell draws in parallel an exciting portrait of the Brooklyn of the 70’s and 80’s. Film on several levels of reading, the feature film also confirms the appeal of Netflix for biographical documentaries, especially musical (What Happened, Miss Simone?, Miss Americana, Homecoming…).
See also on Netflix the anthological series Unsolved whose first season traces the investigation of the unresolved murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
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