Patti Smith: Dream of Life

The 'godmother of punk' is chronicled in 11 years of a friend's home-movie-like footage

Steven Sebring's "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is a dream of a movie; gauzy, free-associative and reverberant. Shot over 11 years by a commercial photographer who befriended the poet, rock star, activist and "godmother of punk" in the mid-'90s, when Smith returned to New York following the death of her husband, it drifts and floats between footage of her as a young woman in the '60s and '70s and rambling home-movie-like footage of her life today.
Of course, Smith's home movies happen to include moments like an impromptu jam session with Sam Shepherd and travels to Tokyo, London, Rome, Israel and Washington, where she attends a giant antiwar rally. [...]

di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (2606 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 17 ottobre 2008