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This film is produced by Betsy Hershey.
Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement.
A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.
Reviews
"The goofy, sweetly cerebral charm of a subtly strange band is captured in this ingenious tribute." – Screen Daily
"Pavement embodies pure chaos, but with a controlled, self-aware attitude that has always defined their work and drawn people to them. Which is why it’s not only appropriate but also pure genius to have the documentary itself embody the very essence of the band by simply existing." – Loud and Clear
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