Sois là pour m'aimer - La tragique vie du chanteur folk Townes van Zandt
Original title: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
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Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
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I can say without a doubt, that Townes Van Zandt is simply best American songwriter of the past century. He owes a lot to classic bluesmen like Lightnin Hopkins and country balladeers like Hank Williams, but for my money, he's the greatest. He has an economy of words and a poetry that none of his competition comes close to. Many people would site Dylan as the greatest, but I think Townes blows him out of the water. There is a rawness, and realness to Townes that you very rarely hear in music, period. You can feel the pain and longing that haunted this man, also the genius poet at work and occaissonally goofy fun lover in all his songs. I discovered Townes thanks to this movie, so I feel indebted to it for introducing me to some of the best music I've ever heard.
- reverendtom
- Nov 25, 2006
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- TriviaIn a 2005 interview with Under the Radar, Margaret Brown explained her approach to telling the story of Townes van Zandt: "I think a lot of my producers were worried that the film would be really elliptical and not a normal kind of music doc and it wouldn't be received well. One of my producers, at Toronto when it opened, he gave me this whole speech beforehand about how I had to explain the film to the audience or they weren't gonna be able to follow it. It seems like everyone kind of goes with it and they feel like they're falling into it and they like it. But maybe people didn't tell me because they know I'm the filmmaker and I might be fragile. I have no idea. I wanted the film to feel like a tapestry. Like the way you meet somebody, you don't hear about their birth and end with their death... I wanted the film to feel like if you went on 10 dates with Townes and you were gradually revealed certain things. Sometimes it may be in order chronologically, but other times, the way things build on each other is not chronological. People don't think that way. Why should films be structured that way?"
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Townes van Zandt: Breaking even is ending up in Purgatory as far as I can tell. I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell and the blues. I'm trying to crawl up from the blues, purgatory for me would be... Home Sweet Home!
- ConnectionsFeatures Heartworn Highways (1976)
- SoundtracksRake
Written by Townes van Zandt
Performed by Townes van Zandt
Courtesy of Tomato Records
Copywright: BUG
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- Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
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- Gross US & Canada
- $129,988
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,098
- Dec 4, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $129,988
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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By what name was Sois là pour m'aimer - La tragique vie du chanteur folk Townes van Zandt (2004) officially released in Canada in English?
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