“Gomis’s film illuminates the musician in a light in which we’ve rarely seen him.”
— Reverse Shot

Using found and previously unreleased footage, this fascinating work from filmmaker Alain Gomis (FÉLICITÉ) finds Thelonius Monk, the legendarily taciturn ivory tickler, trapped in a studio sweat-box for the one-on-one from hell with white interviewer Henri Renaud. An incisive portrait of racial antagonism, REWIND & PLAY is a rigorous deconstruction of how artists are defined—and refined—through our gaze.