This is a look at musician Bill Bartell who was a super genius and a member of the punk band White Flag and other groups. It's a loving portrait of friends and family...
...And if you are not a friend or family or a fan the odds are you are going to feel lost. This film just starts and goes and assumes you know who Bartell was and who all of the people talking are. It's an interesting story but the problem is that there is nothing by way of an introduction. It just starts and goes and hopes either you're on the same page as the filmmakers ot thatyou'll catch up. While I enjoyed the stories, I didn't like them as much as I should have because the film didn't give me enough context.
I still don't know who the hell Bill Bartell was and frankly this film didn't make me want to go find out. My one memory of watching the film was sequence where someone was explaining Bartell's efforts to get someone to play gigs in the US and realizing I had no idea what any of this was about because there was no context to any part of the story and pondering if I should just stop watching the film because I was utterly clueless.
A disappointment.
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