Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

Never heard of the singer-songwriter? After seeing this engaging documentary, you'll likely become a huge fan of his exceptional music.

The way it goes with singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt is that you are either wild about his music or you've never heard of him. A new documentary called "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" is likely to move people from the second category into the first. Though he has somewhat of a reputation for being a grumpy iconoclast, Merritt sat still for a filmmaking process by Gail O'Hara and Kerthy Fix that lasted 300 hours spread over 11 years. Clearly, the directors have to be Merritt advocates to hang in there that long, but the film that resulted has elements that keep it from being simply a fan's notes. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (2571 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 novembre 2010