'David Byrne-American Utopia'
418 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland
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American Utopia is a 2020 American concert film directed and produced by Spike Lee, from a screenplay by David Byrne. The film is a live recording of a Broadway performance of a modified version of the album American Utopia, including several songs and contributions from throughout Byrne's career. Byrne performs alongside 11 musicians, all performing with wireless or portable equipment. Frequent collaborator Annie-B Parson choreographed the production.
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This movie is an intimately shot and thus presented live performance of David Byrne's Broadway show American Utopia which emerged from his album of the same name, the album from which most of the songs performed are taken. The show itself is part concert, part musical theater, part performance art, but always Byrne's commentary on the human condition, largely of humankind trying to find its place in a world that often does not make sense. That place includes finding those much needed connections to each other in his wish, as a naturalized U.S. citizen, for society to move closer to his vision of an American utopia.
"New York's finest team up for a greatest hits extravaganza that doubles as one of 2020's best films..." JUST BRILLIANT (New Yorker)
It had its world premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2020.
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