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The Velvet Underground (2021)

Documentary | 110 minutes
3,66 44 votes

Genre: Documentary / Music

Duration: 110 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Todd Haynes

Stars: Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison

IMDb score: 7,3 (6.068)

Releasedate: 15 October 2021

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Documentary about the legendary 1960s avant-garde group, The Velvet Underground. Regularly working out of Andy Warhol's club 'The Factory' in New York, the band navigated its music between art and street culture, setting milestones for later generations of culture.

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eRCee

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To put it bluntly, the film consists of talking heads over a collage of photos. The problem with this music documentary for me is that it is an archive film. Todd Haynes can't do much about that, but it does mean that in my opinion this cannot belong to the top of the music film genre. There is very little real moving footage of the band while they are playing (the best fragment is perhaps during the beginning of the end credits) or of Lou Reed. What the film The Velvet Underground does do well is to provide an atmosphere. Namely the atmosphere of the alternative scene in New York in the '60s. The first fifty minutes or so the band has not yet formed and you see all the inspiration and cultural embedding of the members. Only after that does more The Velvet Underground music creep into the film, although the songs that play for more than half remain an exception. Haynes then follows a chronological order, in which you get to see the changing composition of the band over the different albums. The musical process, which interests me more personally, is unfortunately not discussed much. I appreciate the film as a picture of the times and it has given me more insight into the entire circle of avant-garde culture to which The Velvet Underground belonged, but as a music documentary it is certainly not as good as hoped.

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mrklm

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The surviving interviewees in this retrospective of the stormy career of the then equally reviled and adored band “Velvet Underground” appear briefly in the picture, Haynes mainly uses archive footage, home videos, film material of the inevitable Andy Warhol and photos. It is a daring choice, because it makes it visually somewhat monotonous, but Haynes uses this method deliberately because it allows the viewer to become more absorbed in the music and the (still) unconventional poetic lyrics of Lou Reed. All band members have their say and Haynes fortunately does not allow himself to be tempted into an extensive chapter on Andy Warhol, however important he was in a number of respects. Instead, he emphasises that “Velvet Underground” was a typical example of a group in which success was the result of the merging of talents that went beyond Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico. An exemplary musical documentary.

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