The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector

Film Information:
Year:

2008

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector

Países:

  

Director:

Vikram Jayanti

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

102 min

Cast:

  • Phil Spector

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Maryse Alberti
  • MONTAJE: Emma Matthews
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Vikram Jayanti, Anthony Wall

Contact:

  • VixPix Films
  • Vikram Jayanti
  • T +1 323 876 3870
  • +44 7798 780 297
  • E vikramjnt@gmail.com

Synopsis

Who knows what may have become of the life of music producer Phil Spector (does one have to explain who he is?), who’s now separated from society after he was indicted with the murder of a woman in 2003, and sentenced to 19 years in prison in a second trial in 2009. But two years before the sentence, exactly one month before the first trial, someone named Vikram Jayanti showed quick reflexes and got into the musician’s mansion, sat him before a very famous piano (the one John Lennon used to record Imagine) and made him talk about everything. About his father, his early days as a musician, the ups and downs of his career, his bad reputation (as a physical abuser and emotional blackmailer), the artists he recorded with, the ones he loved (Lennon, Harrison) and the ones he seems to hate (Tony Bennett, McCartney). These would be quite enough, but there’s more. Because things get weirder –and how– when Spector words hover over the footage of the trial, and some of the great songs he recorded set the music for the slow ending of a guy who knew how to make genius and insanity coexist in one single, banged up little body.

JD

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