“Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle” — that popular maxim (or some variation thereof) is often brought up in the context of remembering to have some sympathy for jerks. B…
, who’s waging the real war, against recurring leukemia. But Batiste is having his own skirmishes with anxiety and panic attacks related to her illness, even as he’s making headlines as the surprise Grammy hoarder of 2022. So don’t hate him just because he seems so damn happy, the film suggests; he’s earned his ebullience., whose previous efforts have established him as someone who deals in far tougher stuff than entertainment-world hagiographies.
Still, you have to wonder if Heineman might have chosen Batiste as a subject just because he was ready to spend that much time in the presence of someone so naturally beatific and beaming, after some of the earlier movies he’s made.
Jaouad is a pretty severely inspirational figure herself, if never less than a brutally honest one, so between them, the movie benefits from a surfeit of positive radiation. Their background together as a couple is established in scenes like the discussion with friends and family at a home wedding ceremony: They met as youth at jazz camp, even if her destiny was to become a New York Times columnist and bestselling author focused on cancer writing, rather than a star of the bass and cello.
The duo seem to have found a way to deal with the everyday ugliness of illness that exists in balance with the blessings, so that Batiste can take a break from symphonic rehearsals to take a phone call from Jaouad about how she woke up with her bed filled with blood, medical ports being imperfect things. Then he hops back to work, rousing dozens of string and horn players he’s just met with the inspirational advice: “It’s gonna sound how it sounds until it sounds how it sounds.
To the extent that the movie does leave Jaouad behind at times to focus just on Batiste’s career, it’s illuminating. And somehow knowing that we’ll come back to the cancer moderates how much a doc just about him could devolve into journeyman-hero worship. “American Symphony” does get into some of the far lesser battles Batiste is facing, like resentment from the classical world that a “pop star” is invading their domain.
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