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Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
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Wikipedia article
'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind' is a 2022 archival documentary film about American singer-songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis directed by Ethan Coen and edited by Tricia Cooke.
Synopsis
74 minutes long, the documentary combines pre-existing interviews with Lewis at different stages of his life and career with performance footage, and interviews with other people such as Myra Lewis Williams, his ex-wife and cousin, and country singer Mickey Gilley who was also his cousin.
Production
Coen and Cooke were approached by T-Bone Burnett during the COVID-19 pandemic with the idea of making an archival documentary with a process that could be completed at home. Coen described the idea "as too compelling to turn down". Speaking to Associated Press Cooke described it as "like a home movie project."
Reception
Peter Bradshaw in 'The Guardian' said it was "thoroughly enjoyable" and that it "does something very few films can: it makes you grin with pleasure. 'The Hollywood Reporter' describes a a video mixtape chock-full of performances showing how even a man who rarely wrote his own songs could earn a place in the rocknroll pantheon. And thats literally all it is.. Coen makes no effort to clear up the mythology [around Lewis]Trouble in Mind may appeal mainly to roots-rock diehards and Coen Brothers super-completists". Owen Gliebermann in 'Variety' acknowledges Coen "uses almost nothing but old performance and TV-interview clips" but that he "combines them artfully, syncing them to his own pleasure centers and ours."
Release
The film was shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2022.
See also
*'Great Balls of Fire' 1989 biopic
References
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