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    Dec 11, 2020 4 minutes

    DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA 12

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    OUT 14 DECEMBER DIGITAL HD 11 JANUARY DVD BD EXTRAS TBC

    Nobody goes to concerts to look at the audience,” said Jonathan Demme about ignoring the crowd in his classic Talking Heads gig pic, Stop Making Sense (1984). Filmed with fluid vigour by Spike Lee at a 2019-20 Broadway residency, Heads frontman David Byrne’s new concert movie says otherwise. Part dance-theatre, part limber art-funk workout, American Utopia is a joyous hymn to connectivity: everyone’s invited.

    Across a clutter-free stage, a shoeless Byrne and his multi-national 11-piece band splinter and reconvene in flexible formation, exploring discrete turf before finding

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