Haynes, queer postmodernist and alt-melodrama master of such modern classics as Safe, Far from Heaven, and Carol, has made his name crafting impeccably rendered portraits of homosexuality and - more urgently - identity. His version of sensationalism is watching avant-garde explorations of natural harmonics folded into mainline music. But these are meant to be insights into his creative process, not embarrassing tabloid fodder.
Nicholas Ave to score some Harlem heroin, or how he admits that if his gay encounters weren’t degrading and hot, then they didn’t qualify as sex. Witness Reed’s walks on the wild side running up to 125th St and St.
Sure, the group that Lou Reed and John Cale formed in 1964 had all that and more. This rock doc unpacks that aphorism brilliantly.ĭon’t expect behind-the-music scandals, petty grievances and he-said she-said jibes. Brian Eno once said that the Velvets’ first album only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought it started a band. “That weirdness, it shouldn’t have existed in that space,” one interviewee explains.
Todd Haynes has created a loving, illuminating portrait of a subcultural supernova which helped transform the playful sexuality of rock n’ roll into a deeper, darker well of longing, alienation and desire. And it rocked.Ī sonic-boom look at a seismic band, The Velvet Underground dissects one of the most influential 1960s musical acts with dizzying visual flair and a structural academic rigor refracted through a showman’s prism.
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The festival’s first full day of screenings climaxed with an evening black-tie world premiere of The Velvet Underground, giving the Apple Original Films production an Out of Competition berth in the 2,300-seat Grand Théâtre Lumière, the largest theater on the Croisette. Cannes rarely showcases documentaries in high-profile slots.
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