A new film aims to reflect the unusual life and career of Frank Zappa with help from his family and those who knew him best
In the decades since the death of Frank Zappa, scores of film-makers had approached his wife and business partner Gail about making a documentary about the star. “They got an infinite amount of no’s,” said their son Ahmet Zappa to the Guardian. “None of them had the right approach.”
That is, until actor and director Alex Winter made a different pitch. “I wasn’t interested in making a typical music documentary about some rock star guitar hero,” he said. “I was interested in who Frank Zappa was as a man and his relationship to his art and the world around him. What were his values and struggles? And I wanted to be honest about his contradictions, of which there were many.”
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