Alive in France

Abel Ferrara's shambolic blues jam of a music documentary

A dancer on stilts stalks the stage; a skittish camera prowls the club like a junkie hoping to score; the guitars howl like tortured souls. And cadaverous and cackling, lit in entirely in red, Abel Ferrara presides over the mayhem like some kind of gleeful demon. It's an opening shot which could have been lifted from any number of his fiction films, but in this case, Ferrara turns his camera on real life. The director of Bad Lieutenant, The King of New York and Driller Killer, among others, Ferrara plays a dual role in this shambling blues jam of a documentary. [...]

di Wendy Ide, articolo completo (3125 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Observer 20 maggio 2017