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| Janis doing what she did best. |
Amy Berg directed one of my
favourite documentaries of all time, West of Memphis, which I had the pleasure to see at the LFF a few years ago. So
I was very excited to see her new film, a biography of Janis Joplin.
Unfortunately this is a pretty standard rock documentary, lifted only by the
inclusion of Janis’s letters home to her family. This allows Janis to be the
narrator, really bringing her alive and showing a side of her that perhaps
people would not have seen before. Somehow it is quite strange that this wild
child wrote to her square parents in Texas to update them on what she was
doing. But I suppose everyone is normal underneath it all.
For fans, or those interested
in the period, it is a chance to wallow in her amazing voice and relive her
crazy and sad story. For everyone else, it is nothing to write home about (somewhat
ironically).
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