A love story against all the
odds....

The story of a white British Baroness who fell in love with the musical genius Thelonious Monk.

Helen Mirren is the voice of the Jazz Baroness.

Sonny Rollins, TS Monk Junior, The Duchess of Devonshire, Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Roy Haynes, Chico Hamilton and many other luminaries appear as themselves.

A co-production with BBC Storyville.

Forthcoming special preview screenings and festival worldwide:

+February 26th- Hannah Rothschild talks about a 'Passion for Pannonica' as part of Jewish Book Week, London.
+April 1st- Washington Library of Congress
+4th-11th April 2009- Fifa, Montreal
+17 April BBC4 tbc.
+30th April-10th May- HotDocs Toronto
+May 7th- Burns Film Centre

"Mesmerising" Stephen Frears

Fabulous brilliant film; I loved it ." Hanif Kureishi

"The film's utterly compelling in its examination of a
profoundly unconventional love story, and it gains hugely from the interplay with the director's own journey of discovery with her great aunt. It's the most beguiling music film since Eastwood's Straight No Chaser."

Peter Florence, Director Hay Festival of Literature and Ideas

BBC RADIO 4, 'THE JAZZ BARONESS',
Please click here to listen

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