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128m
REV25: PAVEMENTS
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Synopsis
A joyously entertaining and endlessly fascinating hybrid work – Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements challenges the limits of the rock documentary.
Taking multiple strands, the film follows the band, documents the creation of Range Life (a big budget feature length biopic of the band starring Stranger Things Joe Kerry as Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus), the creation of Slanted! Enchanted! an off-Broadway jukebox musical and the opening of the Pavement Museum.
Directory Perry has drawn comparisons with Todd Haynes I’m Not There and Bob Dylan’s Renaldo and Clara, and Pavements is a docufiction film that re-imagines the possibility of the music documentary, the myths of rock music, and, somewhere, the story of an indie rock band.
Winner Directorial Achievement Award Virginia Film Festival, 2024.
Feature Documentary | 2024 | USA
Opening Date
Sunday, Jul 6, 2025
Rating
EX15+
Length
128m
Reviews
A hilariously kaleidoscopic telling of the band’s mythologised story and ostensible meaning, while simultaneously functioning as an appropriately wise-ass satire of the non-music mediums that typically seek to capture the essence of musicians.
Pavement might not have really been the most important band ever, but Pavements is an important documentary. It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented.
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