Rametsi’s first look as Masekela frames Condon’s ‘The Road Home’ as Graceland told from exile

Rametsi’s first look as Masekela frames Condon’s ‘The Road Home’ as Graceland told from exile

For nearly four decades, Graceland has been narrated as a story about Paul Simon — his artistic gamble, his Grammy, the ethics of an American songwriter crossing a cultural boycott to record in Johannesburg. Bill Condon’s The Road Home proposes a different center of gravity. The first-look image of Thabo Rametsi as Hugh Masekela, trumpet raised, announces a biopic that means to tell the Graceland affair from the vantage of the South African musi…