Western Stars

Western Stars is an emotional and intimate collection of songs. The songs are all excellent and performed beautifully by Bruce Springsteen himself. It's well paced and Bruce Springsteen and Thom Zimny's direction is incredible as the film is extremely well filmed and visually stunning in parts. Bruce is also an excellent storyteller.

A documentary about Bruce Springfield. A good one. And more. This more, I suppose, it is the most important aspect because it says a different story to each viewer. Not chronicle of a career but honest portrait of a life. And good support / kick to reflect about life meanings because its basic virtue is a delicate - precise generosity , giving the chance to every viewer to recognize crumbs of his life. .

I am a huge Springsteen fan so this may not be the most subjective review. It's not the routine "in concert" recording, this is a beautiful piece of story telling that provides insight not just into the characters in the songs but into Bruce as well. It gives a whole new depth to the album and as a piece of cinema, well, just sit back and let Bruce work his magic on you. I dare you not to feel something....

The music, the narration, and the cinematography were all simply gorgeous. Springsteen hit this one out of the park.

My issue with the movie is that he's taken his artistry and trying to "orchestrate" it and it doesn't work. The songs would be better re-arranged with the E-Street Band rather than a 30-piece orchestra.

The movie tries to tell a story through the narration and lyrics, but it gets lost in the orchestrated arrangements.