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Director
Liam Firmager
Cast
Suzi Quatro,
Alice Cooper,
Debbie Harry,
Tina Weymouth,
Joan Jett
Genre
Documentary,
Music
Featuring archival footage and interviews with rock stars, this documentary tells the story of Suzi Quatro, a groundbreaking rock singer-songwriter who helped establish a greater role for women in rock with her international hits in the early 1970s. Charting her groundbreaking and often under-recognized career, the film creates a portrait of a rock pioneer.
RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
Suzi Q is a portrait of Quatro's journey and her influence on the generations that came after. Most importantly, it is a history lesson for those who may not be aware of Quatro. As Joan Jett, one of the many people interviewed, says, "[Suzi] really should be one of those people who should be much more discussed, much more in the lexicon of musicians—especially being so early."
Arizona Republic
For all the documentary's focus on Quatro's role as a trailblazing woman in rock, the film also serves as an intriguing and entertaining overview of her career.
Arizona Republic by Ed Masley
For all the documentary's focus on Quatro's role as a trailblazing woman in rock, the film also serves as an intriguing and entertaining overview of her career.
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
Through it all, Quatro comes off as “I did it my way” defiant, a fascinating survivor still looked up to by women who were motivated to get into music, thanks to her.
Variety by Chris Willman
In some sense, Quatro was Jett before Jett was really Jett — laying down the leather law when no female rocker had yet managed the combination of sex appeal and pure machisma.
TheWrap by Steve Pond
As much as the film makes it clear that she deserves more recognition and appreciation in her own country, it suggests that she deserves it in her own family, too.
Original-Cin by Kim Hughes
An interesting if rote, talking head–style film about a woman for whom fame was a constant battle but whose shadow stretched longer than her slight frame, a point highlighted often (if not always convincingly) throughout Suzi Q.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
As a glimpse at the nitty-gritty of building a music career in the '60s and '70s, the film is instructive, though the record-by-record trajectory could have been tighter. Tracing the ups and downs and stops and starts, Firmager sometimes lands in the weeds and loses the beat. The film is strongest in its portrait of the formative years of Quatro's career and their emotional residue, which turns out to be the core of this chronicle.
The Guardian by Leslie Felperin
This is a fan-servicing but not necessarily hagiographic documentary.
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