Harvey is mostly a watchful observer with a notebook; sometimes she reads lines of poetry she’s jotted down on the voiceover. But we barely see her interacting with anyone on the ground, which gives the whole thing an impersonal feel.
A Dog Called Money
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States · 2019
1h 34m
Director Seamus Murphy
Starring PJ Harvey
Genre Documentary, Music
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Alternative-music icon PJ Harvey visits Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington, D.C., to talk with the people she meets there and let their stories inspire her songs. Filmmaker Seamus Murphy captures the moments a film that is part travelogue, part music documentary.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Harvey is detail-oriented, good-humored, intimately involved and encouraging of her fellow musicians. The tunes she crafts for the resulting record are intricate and eclectic, but still honor the raw directness of her early work.
If you’ve ever wondered what the boredom threshold is for watching a musician tuning a hurdy-gurdy, you’ll find the answer here.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
There are teasing glimpses of artistic genius in A Dog Called Money, but eccentric choices and muddled intentions, too. A talent as strong and singular as Harvey deserves a more probing, less indulgent film than this.
The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide
What was intended as an examination of the creative process backfires and becomes instead an inadvertent chronicle of oblivious privilege. Harvey wafts through scenes of poverty and devastation, then returns to her cocoon of a studio.
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