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David Byrne's American Utopia
Directed by
Spike Lee
TV-14
2020
1h 45m
Documentary
,
Musical
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8.2
97%
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Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
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Cast of David Byrne's American Utopia
David Byrne
Self
Chris Giarmo
Self - Vocals / Dance & Vocal Captain
Angie Swan
Self - Guitar
Jacqueline Acevedo
Self - Percussion
Bobby Wooten III
Self - Bass
Mauro Refosco
Self - Percussion & Drum Section Leader
Tendayi Kuumba
Self - Vocals / Dance
Gustavo Di Dalva
Self - Percussion
Karl Mansfield
Self - Keyboard & Band Leader
Stephane San Juan
Self - Percussion
Daniel Freedman
Self - Percussion
Tim Keiper
Self - Percussion
David Byrne's American Utopia Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
Your job is to relax and enjoy it. Clap along. Connect with each other, and with yourself. As Byrne seems to say, we owe ourselves that much.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
A crucial element of the show's success is its enormously talented multicultural supporting cast of 11 musicians and dancers, who hail from Brooklyn to Brazil.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
David Byrne's American Utopia refuses to give up on us, and there's a cathartic reassurance to that hopefulness.
Hyperallergic
Kambole Campbell
For all of American Utopia's joy in revisiting these classics, it also has surprising urgency, full of calls to action, specifically around contemporary Black protest.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
This is my favorite movie of the year, so far. It is the dose of pure joy that we need right now.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Peter Rainer
It's really one of the best music documentaries ever made, I think. Right up there with The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
I dare you not to dance while watching it.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
American Utopia doesn't set the screen ablaze, but Byrne and his collaborators certainly know how to put on a show, even when it feels like they're going nowhere.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
Lee's documentary does the music and energy of the stage performance justice. The powerhouse sound of the drumming and joyful force of the songs - as well as the few political messages - come through loud and clear.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
American Utopia feels as much like a balm as it is a surprisingly direct call to political action and social betterment.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
The show is a musical wonder... The songs are the thing, old and new ones equally transporting, their clarity as rich as their mystery.
The Playlist
Robert Daniels
"David Byrne's American Utopia" is an ideal world; it's exhilarating and joyful; and David Byrne and Spike Lee actually do make a perfect pair.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
American Utopia, from its slyly ironic title on down, has been devised as a dispatch from Trumpland, with Byrne positioning himself as a figure of gentle, principled resistance.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Some filmed stage shows die on the screen from a sheer lack of visual energy and invention. Lee, a master of the art, uses cinema's plasticity to complement this production, making it come alive in two dimensions.
Polygon
Karen Han
American Utopia will last past the current moment, past the pandemic, but in the cultural context of its upcoming release, it feels both like an electric current and a balm.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Lee knows what to look for in American Utopia (he keys in on winks and gestures), and knows which angles-like a Busby Berkeley overhead of the band marching in a circle around Byrne-will best clarify the design of the choreography.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"American Utopia" is just the kind of healing, inspiring balm that the audience needs right now. It arrives like an unexpected answer to an unspoken prayer.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
A high-spirited charmer. Will make your soul jump as it reflects the past and mirrors the times we live in with equal verve.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
American Utopia is about facing the person in front of you, or next to you, or standing behind you, and doing the work of seeing.
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
"David Byrne's American Utopia," the Spike Lee-directed film version of Byrne's... 2019 Broadway show, offers an antidote to that quarantine-mandated monotony, an invitation to connect, change and, I don't know, maybe go outside and ride a bicycle...
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