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A blend of interviews, concert footage, and personal moments chronicle the making of the band Arcade Fire's album, Reflektor.
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| The Film StageNick NewmanThe Reflektor Tapes uses the skeleton of a concert film - complete with an encore-of-sorts and post-credits bow-of-sorts - while attempting a meatier document. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Matthew LoweWhile people who love Arcade Fire might get a kick out of the concert footage, they might just as easily be frustrated by the band's willing aloofness. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineArcade Fire were never going to make your standard fly-on-the-wall documentary. While they appear to have fun onstage, music-wise they do take themselves very seriously, and they have every right to do so. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerThe Reflektor Tapes is less a documentary about the making of Arcade Fire's 2013 album than a feature-length collage that does neither the band nor its fans any service. |
| Globe and MailBrad WheelerThis isn't a standard rockumentary - this is willful inscrutability, audacious pretension and artful interference. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghLacks immediacy and actually seems designed for viewers who will discover and romanticize Arcade Fire 20 years from now. |
| The Young FolksJosh Cabrita...The Reflektor Tapes does little to capture the the band's emotion or the powerful gusto behind their live shows. |
| User ReviewPablo BYour tolerance of this film will heavily depend upon just how much you love this band; luckily for Kahlil Joseph & co, I basically adore them. This is an unabashedly arty and pretentious piece, scattershot and disconnected in its approach - but isn't that the whole point? Probably not. But it could be. Taking remixed and deconstructed excerpts from their latest record Reflektor, this abstract documentary follows no tangible line of enquiry, nor does it attempt to construct a narrative of any kind. Instead, Joseph artfully curates something with a semblance of a film using rugged handheld footage in the studio, in Jamaica and in Haiti alongside some glossy steady-cam shots of the band live on stage. Whilst the film being insistent in retaining Arcade Fire's carefully maintained layers of ambiguity and privacy may frustrate some, for me it strikes a perfect balance. Besides, whilst it may not pry into their personal lives at all, this film does deliver insight into the band's recording process and provides fascinating footage of their time in Jamaica, discovering and exploring the sounds around them, scenes which will no doubt enrich the aural experience of listening to Reflektor next time around. For many, the band's flaws shine through this inherently flawed rockumentary: pretentious, po-faced and aesthetic obsessed, with little meaning beyond the artrock surface. I don't see it, personally. I still love Arcade Fire, in fact I probably love them more after this (especially RÃ (C)gine, who shows an endearing sense of vulnerability in a few scenes), an achievement if there ever was one. Even in a sea of alleged pretentiousness and glossy surface musing, there is emotional nourishment: case in point, Win sat alone, singing the lyrics to It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus), lost in the music. It's a heartening scene in a muddled but audacious masterpiece that is a natural extension of Arcade Fire's ideas at this particular time and has left me yearning more than ever for whatever they release next. (This score is fully influenced by my love for this band - this is of course not a 5 star film. Still much better than the reviews suggest though) |
| User ReviewCraig mDon't believe the critics reviews, this is a really decent representation of the whole Reflektor period and process. The visual creativity on show here is an equal to the music. As they say at the end, look upon it as a video remix of the album. |
| User ReviewGianni F'Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes' documents the making of the Montreal bands' fourth album, 'Reflektor', while incorporating personal and live footage, all while being artsy. The documentary is too artsy. It doesn't quite stick to a 'making of' or a concert film, it's simply director Khalil Joseph's vision or take on this period in Arcade Fire's career. As much as the footage is stunning and vibrant, it did nothing for me. If you are a fan of the band, see it, if not skip it. |
