Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
Directed byEthan Coen
Produced by
StarringJerry Lee Lewis
Edited byTricia Cooke
Production
companies
Distributed byA24
Release dates
  • February 14, 2024 (2024-02-14) (
    Prime Video
    )
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind is a 2022 archival documentary film about American singer-songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis directed by Ethan Coen and edited by Tricia Cooke.

Synopsis

The documentary combines pre-existing interviews with Lewis at different stages of his life and career with performance footage, and interviews with other people such as Myra Lewis Williams, his ex-wife and cousin, and country singer Mickey Gilley who was also his cousin.[1]

Production

Coen and Cooke were approached by

T-Bone Burnett during the COVID-19 pandemic with the idea of making an archival documentary with a process that could be completed at home, which was appealing at a time of widespread isolation and withdrawal from public activities. Coen described the idea as "too compelling to turn down". Cooke described it as "like a home movie project."[2][3]

Reception

On the

weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[5]

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian said it was "thoroughly enjoyable" and that it "does something very few films can: it makes you grin with pleasure."[6] The Hollywood Reporter describes "a video mixtape chock-full of performances showing how even a man who rarely wrote his own songs could earn a place in the rock’n’roll pantheon. And that’s literally all it is.. Coen makes no effort to clear up the mythology [around Lewis]…Trouble in Mind may appeal mainly to roots-rock diehards and Coen Brothers super-completists".[7] Owen Gliebermann in Variety acknowledges Coen "uses almost nothing but old performance and TV-interview clips" but that he "combines them artfully, syncing them to his own pleasure centers—and ours."[8]

Release

The film was shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2022.[9] The film had an official public release on Prime Video in the United States on February 14, 2024.

See also

References

  1. ^ "'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind': Cannes Review". Screendaily.com.
  2. ^ "Ethan Coen on his Jerry Lee Lewis doc and filmmaking return". APNews.com. 21 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Ethan Coen Speaks On Reasons For Hiatus From Filmmaking & Return With Cannes Doc 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind'". Deadline.com. 21 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  5. Fandom, Inc.
    Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  6. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (22 May 2022). "Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind review – Ethan Coen's amazing tribute to the Killer". The Guardian.
  7. ^ "Ethan Coen's 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind': Film Review". Hollywood Reporter. 23 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind' Review: Ethan Coen's First Solo Outing Spotlights Lewis's Timelessly Wild Rock 'n' Roll Joy". Variety.com. 22 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Cannes Review: Ethan Coen's 'Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind'". Desdline.com. 22 May 2022.

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