In many respects, the case of Una Vida (“the Queen of Royal Street”) is not so different from those chronicled in the documentary “Alive Inside.” Although she suffers from Alzheimer’s, music seems to awaken her memories and offers a means to relate to the outside world, at least to some extent.
However, the standards she sings are also intertwined in her head with a profound trauma from decades past. A grieving neuroscientist will be drawn to the vocalist and her blues guitarist protector in Richie Adams’s ”Of Mind and Music,” which opens March 4 in Los Angeles.
The cast and the music always propel the film forward.
