Avicii: True Stories
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Avicii: True Stories |
| Original title | Avicii: True Stories |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish , English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Levan Tsikurishvili |
| script | Levan Tsikurishvili |
| production | Levan Tsikurishvili |
| cut |
Johan Lindvall , Francesco Loi , Nils Moström |
| occupation | |
Avicii: True Stories is a documentary from the year 2017 about the Swedish electronic dance music -Produzenten and DJ Tim Berg Ling, who under the stage name Avicii occurred. The director was Levan Tsikurishvili, who has been out and about with Bergling almost every day since 2013. The biography was released in selected cinemas on October 26, 2017. The French DJ David Guetta , the Haitian hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean , the Dutch DJ Tiësto , and front man Chris Martin from Coldplay and Madonna have guest appearances and give interviews . The documentary ends with 30 minutes of Avicii's last live show on August 28, 2016 at Club Ushuaïa in Ibiza .
production
The documentary was produced by BBC Worldwide and shot by Stockholm director Levan Tsikurishvili. Daniel Zackrisson from Sveriges Television acted as executive producer . The documentary accompanies Bergling while producing in the music studio and on tour on the road from 2011 to the end of 2016.
Regarding his motivation for the documentary, the director said:
“I wanted to do a brutally honest film about Tim as a person and not only about Avicii. Everybody knows Avicii but very few people know Tim. I think this documentary really shows Tim's struggle and strength of character. Being a worldwide superstar artist is not as easy as it looks on Instagram. ”
“I wanted to make a brutally honest film about Tim as a person, not just Avicii. Everyone knows Avicii, but few people know him as Tim. I think this documentary shows Tim's struggle and the strength of his character. Being a global superstar isn't as easy as it looks on Instagram. "
The English film title True Stories means True Stories and references to Avicii's studio albums True (2013) and Stories (2015). The film is 127 minutes long and was filmed in color in widescreen format with an aspect ratio of 2.35: 1.
publication
Avicii: True Stories was performed in Lithuania , the Netherlands and Sweden on October 26, 2017 , in Finland on November 9, 2017 and in France on November 20, 2017 . The documentation was released on March 31, 2018 by the video-on-demand provider Netflix . Due to Bergling's death on April 20, 2018, Netflix temporarily withdrew the documentary from the UK program.
criticism
“'True Stories' is the name of the biopic about the Swedish DJ and producer Avicii, who, thanks to hits like ' Wake Me Up ' and 'Without You', is one of the most successful musicians today - and the audience is actually amazed at the ruthlessness , with which one peek behind the scenes of a world career: Our hero drinks until the pancreas is broken, while his manager chases him around the globe for years. In addition, the background to Avicii's notorious resignation from touring life is told. How his managers and bookers refuse to acknowledge the decision and how the then mid-twenties then had to fight for the authority to interpret his career, provides impressive evidence of how sad the life of a megastar can sometimes be. "
“If 'Avicii: True Stories' is a story of 'too much, too soon', it makes clear that Avicii, who was trailed over a period of years for the film, didn't necessarily want it that way. But the director, Levan Tsikurishvili, never reconciles the movie's competing impulses. It's part promotional video, part backstage doc and - in retrospect - part tragedy. "
“If 'Avicii: True Stories' is a story of 'too much, too early', it makes it clear that Avicii, who was accompanied for years on the film, didn't necessarily want it that way. But director Levan Tsikurishvili never reconciles the film's competing impulses. It's partly a promotional video, partly a backstage document and - in retrospect - partly a tragedy. "
"After Bergling's death, the biopic 'Avicii: True Stories' (2017) produced by the BBC acts like a warning sign and an advertising panel at the same time."
Web links
- Avicii: True Stories in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Avicii: True Stories . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 173293 / K).
- ↑ pcl / with material from AFP: "I love and miss you": Avicii friend Tsikurishvili mourns the dead star DJ. In: Focus . April 20, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Avicii Releases Documentary AVICII: TRUE STORIES in Select Theaters, Today. In: Broadway World. October 26, 2017, accessed April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Branka Maxim: Avicii: True Stories reveals the high price of fame. In: We rave you. October 31, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ News from the life of the DJ. In: bigFM . September 12, 2017, accessed May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Jens Maier: "Otherwise I will die" - this is how Avicii anticipated his death. In: Stern . April 25, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018 .
- ↑ BBC Worldwide acquires documentary from superstar artist Avicii. In: BBC . March 23, 2016, accessed May 22, 2020 (UK English).
- ^ Grace Fleisher: 'Avicii: True Stories' documentary is coming to Netflix. In: Dancing Astronaut. November 6, 2017, accessed May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b After the Bill Cosby judgment: Why you absolutely have to watch this Netflix documentary on the weekend. In: Stern . April 28, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Avicii documentary "True Stories" on Netflix. In: Rolling Stone . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, April 18, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Ben Kenigsberg: 'Avicii: True Stories' Review: The Arc of Fame, Cut Short. In: The New York Times . December 20, 2018, Retrieved June 8, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Benjamin Freund: Never ending party rage. In: Piqd . April 26, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018 .