I apologise, we feel bad, but there's no trailer available. ~Ed.
There is nothing I hate worse than self reflexivity in documentary. Especially when the makers include themselves as expert comments - like when the makers talk about how they stumbled across an air competition and had to make a documentary about it. Why did they have to state the obvious? Why wouldn't they have let the people and whole being of what is 'wir guitar' speak for itself. Apart from that there are some interesting characters in the documentary - like the wannabe actor who is using air guitar as a vehicle to get known to the guy who takes it so seriously that he must be mad! I'm into my documentary about wacky off the wall things but this misses the point and tries to hard to capture wacky without just observing. Definitely a poor copy cat of other documentaries in the same vain.
Shot in a raw, grungy style that lends the film a degree of authenticity, AGN is a riff-roaring experience that rarely hits a bum note.
These burlesques do start to grate after a while. Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit.
It's performance art complete with an audience. It's "instant meditation." Or as one particularly besotted practitioner boasts, "To err is human, to air guitar divine."
The nutty thing is, by the end of this jolly, oddly compelling and genuinely suspenseful documentary, the ridiculousness of such notions seems open to genuine debate.
The air guitar exponents rock, but lacks a sense of fun from the film-makers.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 7th Feb 2008.
Release date: February 7th 2008.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
