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Haynes, a master deconstructionist... delivers the band's much-told story in ways that avoid the obvious while probing pretty deeply.
Full reviewFrom Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes (Carol) comes this documentary on influential American rock band The Velvet Underground, there rise to prominence in the '60s and '70s, and the multiple strands that brought them together.
Haynes, a master deconstructionist... delivers the band's much-told story in ways that avoid the obvious while probing pretty deeply.
Full reviewThis 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.
Full reviewIf 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.
Full reviewHaynes finds an enthralling middle ground between hero worship and ambivalence.
Full review(Haynes') affectionate documentary about The Velvet Underground is more idiosyncratic than the average rock-doc.
Full reviewIt's not some wasn't-that-a-time collection of anecdotes, but a percolating dream of invention made tantalisingly present...
Full reviewA rock documentary as dark, dizzying and decadent as the band itself.
Full reviewTodd Haynes' look back at the Sixties downtown-boho rock icons gives the group the exhilarating, experimental portrait it richly deserves...
Full reviewThe Velvet Underground is available to stream in New Zealand now on Apple TV+.
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