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Documentary centers on the life and work of Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette while making her breakout album 'Jagged Little Pill'Documentary centers on the life and work of Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette while making her breakout album 'Jagged Little Pill'Documentary centers on the life and work of Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette while making her breakout album 'Jagged Little Pill'
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- TriviaAlanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as "reductive" and "salacious." Morrissette went on to say, "I was lulled into a false sense of security and their (director) salacious agenda became apparent immediately upon my seeing the first cut of the film. This is when I knew our visions were in fact painfully diverged."
- ConnectionsEdited into Music Box: Jagged (2021)
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Rollicking look back at Alanis' breakthrough album and tour
As "Jagged" (2021 release; 97 min.) opens, Alanis and her band are in their dressing room, moments before going onstage at another gig on the "Jagged Little Pill" tour. We then go to Alanis today, as she gets situated for being interviewed by the director, and Alanis starts talking about her upbringing in Ontario, Canada and how she became a Debbie Gibson-reminding pop star at age 15, only to abandon it all and restart in Los Angeles at age 19...
Couple of comments: this is the latest from up-and-coming but already well respected documentary director Alison Klayman ("The Brink"). Here she looks back at how Alanis reinvented herself from scratch for the "Jagged Little Pill" album. Alanis talks openly about being raped at age 15 in Canada (it's called "statutory rape", she says). Her musical partnership with producer Glen Ballard gets plenty of coverage. The film includes many other talking heads, such as Shirly Manson (Garbage), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters, but he was the drummer on the Jagged tour) and others. There is plenty of concert footage of course. It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years ago. I all found it quite rollicking as a documentary. Alanis, who gave full cooperation during the filming, has now openly disavowed the film for being "reductive" and "salacious". Say what? Did Alanis and I watch the same documentary? I'm thinking this is just Alanis being Alanis.
"Jagged" opened this weekend on HBO as part of the "Music Box" documentary series. It is now available on HBO On Demand and on HBO Max (where I saw it), and eventually on other streaming platforms and DVD/Blu-ray. If you loved "Jagged Little Pill" and all that it stood for (and who doesn't?), I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.
Couple of comments: this is the latest from up-and-coming but already well respected documentary director Alison Klayman ("The Brink"). Here she looks back at how Alanis reinvented herself from scratch for the "Jagged Little Pill" album. Alanis talks openly about being raped at age 15 in Canada (it's called "statutory rape", she says). Her musical partnership with producer Glen Ballard gets plenty of coverage. The film includes many other talking heads, such as Shirly Manson (Garbage), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters, but he was the drummer on the Jagged tour) and others. There is plenty of concert footage of course. It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years ago. I all found it quite rollicking as a documentary. Alanis, who gave full cooperation during the filming, has now openly disavowed the film for being "reductive" and "salacious". Say what? Did Alanis and I watch the same documentary? I'm thinking this is just Alanis being Alanis.
"Jagged" opened this weekend on HBO as part of the "Music Box" documentary series. It is now available on HBO On Demand and on HBO Max (where I saw it), and eventually on other streaming platforms and DVD/Blu-ray. If you loved "Jagged Little Pill" and all that it stood for (and who doesn't?), I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.
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- paul-allaer
- Nov 22, 2021
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