PAVEMENTS

With idiosyncratic indie-hero director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Phillip, Her Smell, Queen of Earth) at the helm, and one of the most unconventional bands of the 1990s as its subject, Pavements had no chance of being a standard music documentary. But even through that gloriously perverse prism of expectation, this is a deliriously unhinged strut into exciting new territory. 

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As “meta” as it gets, Pavements is a kaleidoscopic cinematic swirl that mixes narrative storytelling and the documentary form, while detouring through the musical and concert genres. 

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Playfully goofy, Pavements is built around footage of lo-fi godheads Pavement preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour, but takes a variety of arresting twists and turns, including into a film-within-a-film where Stranger Things’ Joe Keery gets into character to play Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus in a Hollywood biopic.

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“Pavements is a joyous, slyly subversive celebration that…catches the band’s wayward spirit.” –– SCREEN DAILY