Junun

Great lively music... some very nice shots too. Cool to see such vibrant culture being documented and preserved.

PTA: I'm gonna go make a movie in India brb

the images were so boring that i stopped looking at them and did something else. i'm not really sure what PTA is supposed to be doing here. the music was okay.

The album was better?

Güzel bir belgesel-müzikal. Hintlilere bakıyorum da ne ilginç bir kültürleri var. Camii de elektro gitar çalıyorlar falan. Camii onlar için sadece ibadet yeri değil aynı zamanda sanat icra etme yeri. Bizde ise müze olsun mu olmasın mı...

More of a loose collection of live recordings and short interviews than a movie, but still makes for a pleasant watch/listen.

shaky couple of shots of a couple of musicians making music, with the illustrous greenwood lurking behind his bonnet. it felt like I just could walk in, sit on a cushion and start drumming along. And I mean that as a really positive thing. As long as Tzur just played his guitar or fluit and kept his mouth shut, the music was sometimes interesting. The best part: not a single word said about music!

Feels like an anecdotal aside but is also 99% about the music, and as a long-form concert film it's pretty engrossing.

Tight and razor-sharp. I think what I like best about this movie is how much it isn't about Jonny Greenwood (By the looks of it, he barely even needs to be there), or about the context of this three-week musical excursion. There's no sense of before and after, and it doesn't matter at all. Instead, the film focuses in on the boundless creative energy that surged through this room, pure artistic expression and collaboration, captured with springy intensity by PTA's grab bag of digital tricks.

As a fan of Jonny Greenwood, PTA and traditional Indian music, I was pretty stoked coming into this. Sadly, it all revolves around the axis of Shye Ben Tzur, not a terribly inspired songwriter. His more classical arrangements do sound great, because they aren't technically his, and the Indian musicians just do their awesome thing, but it's not Ben Tzur's input that's rewarding. PTA sticks to filming the music being played with maximum transparency, but the social dynamic is still interesting.

I can't say I really enjoyed the music but it definitely has an offbeat and joyful rhythm to it. Other than that, I didn't find it particularly insightful as you hardly get to learn anything about the band members. Note to PTA: Auto-focus OFF.

A spirited and gorgeously lit appreciation of the creative process. Anderson places all the focus on the musicians and their music, and the result is simply joyful. Not only does the music feel like we're getting to go behind the scenes in the recording process, but the filmmaking feels that way as well. Anderson seems to be experimenting with the possibilities of digital filmmaking, regularly using a drone, but also taking a much more free-flowing approach to shooting the action.