Patti Smith: Dream of Life
United States,
2008
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109 min.
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Dir. Steven Sebring
Patti Smith enters this documentary first as poetic narrator, telling her own life story, and she often feels more like the filmmaker’s collaborator than his subject. The film juxtaposes a young Smith with grainy black-and-white recent tour footage and candid scenes. Smith remembers dead friends, lovers, and heroes, and even the film’s celebratory climax, a rousing live performance of “Rock’n’roll Nigger,” carries a grim weight—it’s a final performance with Benjamin Smoke, who died during the film’s 10-year-long gestation.
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