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Marianne Faithfull - Dreaming My DreamsRating:
Release Date: 14 August, 2002 Retail Price: $17.99 OUR Price: $15.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Marianne Faithfull - Dreaming My Dreams Reviews
Stop reading my review and buy this. Now.
Have a passion for music? Buy this. Now. Be it Kurt Weill or John Cale? Buy this. Now. Eternal gratitude to Image for putting this out and Amazon for accessing it. WARNING, CLICHE FOLLOWS (but it is true): One of the most personal and intense singers, one of the best songwriters, and one of the most facinating celebrities (these are generally conflicting things) of the latter half of the 20th century, Marianne Faithfull and the filmmakers brought her history and her art to my home. If you share these passions, you will click and let them be brought to yours.
Added concert footage brings her story full circle
Viewers unfamiliar with Marianne Faithfull may wonder what all the fuss is about: her voice seems like a ruin, and her songs a gothic landscape of unfulfilled longing. Yet it's just these qualities that her long-time fans find redeem her pop-star past. The DVD doesn't add anything to explain this appeal (you either enjoy Marianne's voice and songs, or you find them inexplicable) but it does trace a line from past to present with a directness that even Marianne finds astonishing in the telling: how did I get here from there?
It's an old twist on the celebrity tale when Ms. Faithfull -- after being at the center of the cultural '60s storm, thanks in part to the Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham -- admits that "what I'd really like would have been a nice suburban life." You can take that remark at face value, or it can serve as the ultimate cautionary tale of wretched excess survived, from the co-writer of "Sister Morphine."
The bonus concert footage is from her appearance on "Sessions at West 54th" (2000), a summation of Marianne's recording career at the time, and her full-length interview is intercut with archival footage from the mid-sixties and parts of the concert at St. Ann's Church in NYC that make up her live album, "Blazing Away." If there's a fault to this production, it seems somewhat short at sixty minutes (the added concert footage does, however, stretch it to an hour-and-a-half): her '90s history seems a bit rushed, and there's Keith Richards to sit for an interview about Marianne and yet just two brief quotes, although great ones. The DVD is a good look at the flip-side of rock stardom and a showcase for Marianne's extraordinary career.
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