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I'm always reading you late, but it's worth it... Amazing movie, a must-see.

In my opinion, what makes the film great is primarily the choice of casting actors from the streets, taking them away for a brief moment of glory and then sending them back to their lives once the "masterpiece noise" is over. It seems that the child stars have returned to their - miserable - existence, which has become even more so after experiencing fame, however briefly. I find this to be very, very sad...

Hi, I'm arriving late and commenting without having read the posts: it seems I'm only discovering you now (but how come?) but I really like the way you write... yes, yes.

A beautiful review. I have the movie and I've been meaning to watch it for a long time. I think I was missing the motivation. Now I have it. Gracias.

Good review, however, as for the above posts, I diverge in my consideration of Hackett compared to the colleagues and friends he used to have. Anyway, a similar operation will never reach my ears that the Genesis were greatly loved until around 1977.. Thanks!

..mmhh, I’m not familiar with the work in question but I don't think I'll be looking for it. I have so much unreleased and official material from Genesis that it's more than enough, and from what you say, this doesn’t seem so essential. I mostly agree with LONDON when he says that Genesis’s discography is sufficient; among other things, I also have a double live bootleg of The Lamb, though I can't remember the title right now (I’ll check, but I think it’s “The Lamb Lives down on...”) which is really nice despite some smudges and imperfections that I’d call perfectly normal (considering they exist): even just the live technology wasn’t what it is today...

As for defining "The Lamb" as the precursor to Gabriel’s solo work, it’s something I’ve read multiple times in the music literature of the 90s, perhaps if understood as the album marking a separation from certain sounds and themes more typical of the band’s much more progressive early work. For me anyway, The Lamb is an excellent 5-star album, but it doesn’t surpass the masterpiece trilogy of Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, and Selling England by the Pound, the pinnacle of the band and I dare say also of the prog music movement in the broader sense of the term. Sure, maybe I'm going overboard, but for me Genesis are untouchable... And anyway, Gabriel and the rest of the band were already coming to the end of their run at that time, and The Lamb represents the breaking point in the group's intentions; perhaps that’s what TRILOBITA meant to say...

Hi Bed, I’m not familiar with this and I feel I need to remedy that as soon as possible... The original "label" of Les Disques du Crepuscule is already a guarantee by itself and then with this cover... I'll note it down right away. Thank you.

As mentioned, on Saturday night I indulged in watching the documentary above and I really enjoyed it, although I left the cinema with little desire for hearty laughs; I would say rather a bitter smile. However, I am convinced that documentaries like this should be watched even though I know that the people who watch them are always the same ones who already know these things and are already disgusted by them...

Beautiful beautiful

What fascinated me back then, I now find a bit "obvious"...