Dream of Life
Steven Sebring's Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which opens August 6 at the Film Forum in Manhattan, is a haunting, impressionistic thing, and has been given a nice background write-up by Terrence Rafferty in the New York Times, but this is a film that can't be described with any hint of accuracy - it must be absorbed, felt, and reflected upon to be fully appreciated and understood.
Jeff Wells wrote passionately about it after a Sundance screening back in January, and indeed this is a film that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. It's hands down the best documentary I've seen this year, and quite honestly the best one I've seen in several years. This is searing, soul-piercing work of the most impressive kind - the kind that challenges the bounds of cinema and redefines what it means to be a documentary.
I'll be tapping out my full thoughts for a review closer to its release. But let me just say right now, this is something major.
Jeff Wells wrote passionately about it after a Sundance screening back in January, and indeed this is a film that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. It's hands down the best documentary I've seen this year, and quite honestly the best one I've seen in several years. This is searing, soul-piercing work of the most impressive kind - the kind that challenges the bounds of cinema and redefines what it means to be a documentary.I'll be tapping out my full thoughts for a review closer to its release. But let me just say right now, this is something major.
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In any case if you are saying that PATTI SMITH ranks above UP THE YANGTZE,(and is #2 of teh year) then that is really saying something. I am eager to see it!
I hope I'm not overhyping PATTI SMITH, but I really do feel very strongly about it. I just can't get it out of my head. Amazing stuff.