The movie
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David Byrne’s American Utopia
Spike Lee’s gorgeously visual rendition of the performance as Byrne and an army of back-up singers and dancers perform some 20 songs, including old Talking Heads favourites like ‘Burning Down the House’.
Description
‘Spike Lee joins forces with David Byrne for a joyous concert movie that rocks and delights, sending you high and then higher… It’s a handsome, intelligently visual entertainment — you want to watch and not just listen — [and] it has a comforting intimacy… Some filmed stage shows die on the screen from a sheer lack of visual energy and invention. Lee, a master of the art, uses cinema’s plasticity to complement this production, making it come alive in two dimensions… “American Utopia” flows beautifully…’—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times