Lawrence Of Belgravia
Posted by Douglas Anderson October 31, 2011 Comments(0)
I managed to get to the final screening of Lawrence Of Belgravia at the London Film Festival last week. As a fan of the Lawrence’s work going back to the Felt days I was looking forward to learning more about him but must admit that when the director of the film Paul Kelly stated in his introduction that the film didn’t rely on archive footage or talking head interviews to help tell the story I was slightly unsure if it would work. Happily it did, in fact, a non-reliance on traditional musical documentary techniques simply served to add a freshness to the genre. What comes over strongly is the idea of a man with his own artistic vision and a complete disinterest in re-treading past glories. Although it would probably be fair to say that Lawrence comes across as a slightly oddball figure, he is also funny, self effacing and a genuinely interesting artist clearly at odds with the commercial music business. This film deserves to get at least a limited cinematic release but it remains to be seen whether it will. A review courtesy of Screendaily can be found here and one from The Guardian here.
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