BEYONCÉ’S COACHELLA DOC
Get Into Formation. The Netflix Documentary Is Here.
OK ladies and gentlemen, let’s get into formation. Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé debuts on Netflix on Wednesday, and we could not be more excited.
The 2-hour-and-17-minute film is an in-depth look at the female powerhouse’s 2018 Coachella performance. It’s not just a concert film where people can relive the full production (though we admit that would be cool).It’s smart to present more than just the performance in the Netflix documentary because people could stream the concert for free. Instead, people will be able to see the master at work, conducting her crew to stardom.
Choreographer JaQuel Knight brought the pazzazz and umph to BeyChella, which was the first time a black woman held a headlining position at the California music festival. Yeah, that’s crazy. We’re honestly surprised Beyoncé wasn’t invited many years before. Oh, and Beyoncé got poet Maya Angelou to narrate the trailer (which you can watch above), and that’s pretty breathtaking.
At the time of the performance, Paul A. Thompson of Pitchfork dived deep into her set that focused on power imbalances: “Beyoncé has a cultural sixth sense for finding the busted seams between regions and eras and styles, and the performance saw her stitching those breaks back together in a way that made them new again.”
The doc will surely give us more reasons to love Beyoncé — as if we didn’t already have a million of them.
