RogerEbert.com
Haynes, a master deconstructionist... delivers the band's much-told story in ways that avoid the obvious while probing pretty deeply.
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The Velvet Underground
- Director:
- Todd Haynes ('Carol', 'Far from Heaven')
- Writer:
- Todd Haynes
- Cast:
- Lou ReedJohn CaleSterling MorrisonMaureen Tucker
The Velvet Underground | Reviews
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The Guardian
This is a great documentary about people who are serious about music and serious also about art, and what it means to live as an artist. Where perhaps it falls down is on the ordinary, gossipy sense of how exactly the band members could have fallen out so badly, and how painful that surely must have been.
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The Times
If Haynes's film is reverent... it also evokes the intoxication of an era and the bloody-minded insistence of its stars on doing things differently.
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Little White Lies
Haynes finds an enthralling middle ground between hero worship and ambivalence.
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BBC
(Haynes') affectionate documentary about The Velvet Underground is more idiosyncratic than the average rock-doc.
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Los Angeles Times
It's not some wasn't-that-a-time collection of anecdotes, but a percolating dream of invention made tantalisingly present...
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San Francisco Chronicle
A rock documentary as dark, dizzying and decadent as the band itself.
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Rolling Stone
Todd Haynes' look back at the Sixties downtown-boho rock icons gives the group the exhilarating, experimental portrait it richly deserves...
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