En remontant le Mississippi (Robert Roviros Manthoulis, 1973)

This is Greek filmmaker, writer and poet Robert (Roviros) Manthoulis TV movie “En remontant le Mississippi“. It was preceed by “Blues Entre Les Dents”. “Blues Entre Les Dents” (1972) this relatively short French-made feature film with an all-English soundtrack boasts performances by blues greats including B.B. King, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Bukka White, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Roosevelt Sykes, Fury Lewis, Mance Lipscomb and Robert Pete story concerns a young black couple who live in the ghetto with the boy’s mother. When the boy lashes out at the limitations of his life, he winds up in prison. Eventually he gets out, but things don’t look good for the relationship’s longevity. Many blues performances are included in the story, particularly in the prison episode, “En Remontant Le Mississippi” (1974) picking the Mississippi river as a symbol to illustrate black America first form of art odyssee, the authors described the metamorphosis of rural blues into an urban music and ma