Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of music press vitriol, drink and drug addictions as well as many barren ...
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Title: A Curious Life (2014)
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Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of music press vitriol, drink and drug addictions as well as many barren years in the wilderness. But the band had seven consecutive gold albums throughout the 90s, sold out their own festival for the last ten years and run their own creative centre, the Metway. Via the eccentric artist, archivist, whiskey loving bassist Jeremy Cunningham we are taken on a journey; how the band rose to fame and how they survived. A potted history of 25 years of subsidised dysfunctionalism. An uplifting tale of battling demons, that reminds us that behind every band there is always a story of struggle for expression, acceptance and survival. Written by Anonymous
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The result, A CURIOUS LIFE, scores with being a sort of "Wundertüte" - the frame music/band documentary (+Levellers) is set but you really have to see with your own eyes what exactly is in it or pop up. Presented in a special style of its own, boosted by a remarkable grade of unpredictability linked with the lead characters' course, including a lot of funny things plus freak-show bits.
The film is really a moving picture - especially for a music/band documentary - since there are many different stops and locations on the way eminently in the narrative present footage plus spots of human touch.
Contains various potential for individual highlights on entertainment or information level - one of my favourites is the suspenseful promising part "Raiders of the lost tape". And the Dungeon really looks like a place of interest.
No doubt - for people who know the main steps of the earlier Levellers-history the film delivers enough different attractions around those events.
All in all well varied, with pretty good re-watching value and like an cinematic encore to the book 'Dance Before The Storm - The Official Story of the Levellers' by George Berger (1998).
For fans only? I've seen some music/band documentaries knowing close to nothing about the band in advance. "Let's watch a music/band documentary!" is enough here too - this rather curious different program ends pretty sure worth the choice.
Besides that the film set me in the mood to cry; the return to the place of the live debut is a painful missing piece - no matter how the room looks today - if the place still exists.
If it's a deleted scene I can't imagine why and wait curious for the DVD release. If the visit was simply forgotten I hope for another hand-held camera following Jeremy to the basement for the extended cut version.
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