Betty Wright and the Roots: Betty Wright: The Movie

"SOME PEOPLE think it's an untouchable subject, but I like to touch the untouchable," says Betty Wright as her organic roots funk Betty Wright: The Movie winds down with the piano rising to meet her on the slow jam 'Go!' — subtle strings, quiet storm singers and a halting, but smoky delivery of a song that catalogues with startling specificity a litany of physical moments of domestic violence that builds to a taut groove exodus of the abused under cover of night.