‘Miles Ahead’ gets some seriously cool teaser artwork

We had the opportunity to see Don Cheadle‘s superb Miles Ahead at a screening at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, and the film will arrive in UK cinemas finally next month. As we lead up to release day, the UK distributors have shared the followed, very cool, very colourful new quad posters to promote the movie.

Here’s the plot.

All Rolling Stone reporter Dave Braden (Ewan McGregor) wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, Miles Davis (Don Cheadle). What he gets instead is a wild and dangerous ride-along with a recording artist living at his edge, rife with shootouts, car-chases, and a tale of lost love to the singer Frances (Emayatzy Corinealdi).

Inspired by events in Miles Davis’s life, Academy Award® Nominee Don Cheadle boldly brings his vision, both in-front-of and behind-the-camera in Mile Ahead, his directorial debut. A wildly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds-barred portrait of one of twentieth-century music’s creative geniuses.

We’ll share a little from our review, but be sure to click through for a more detailed, non-spoilery critique.

Cheadle’s storytelling is on the button, though he takes a more unconventional approach to the narrative. The clever editing transitioning between past and present is a little off-putting and perhaps unnecessary in places, but overall he’s delivered a well-paced, engrossing film that certainly won’t disappoint fans of the musician despite the story very much focussing on his darker days.

What does come through in the final movie is Cheadle’s passion for his subject and the music that he created. It’s a moody, jazz-soaked, intricate piece that is also a dazzling debut from a new director as well as a very experienced and talented actor.

Miles Ahead opens in the UK on April 22nd, 2016. Check out the posters below.