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Pavements, Alex Ross Perry (2024)
An inventive and funny movie about a band. Part documentary, narrative, and musical. The alchemy of farce, myth, and sentimentality is authentic to Pavement; even the parody is believable.
I searched my Human Intelligence for a comp, and the best I could find was Nathan Fielder. Both use absurdity to find truth.
I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Was it watching with my teen daughter? Was it ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film’s third act? Was it the lyrics divorced from 90s cynicism by musical theater? Who knows, I did. Watch It.
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