2001 · documentary · music · arctic
Cool and Crazy
Directed by Knut Erik Jensen1h 44m2001
Much as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool & Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in Berlevåg.
Our read: Cool and Crazy (2001) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary · music · arctic entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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- gentle
- intimate
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