Like rummaging though Smith’s closet, and stumbling across interesting stuff. A stream-of-consciousness experience that gains much respect.
VARIETY
A unique record of an artist’s journey. A fascinating and poignant look at the life and work of the rock star and poet.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
An insider’s view of her life over the past 11 years… A total access to a subject who accepted the camera as a friendly fan.
THE GUARDIAN
Her voice, the people in her life, her shows, her reflections… Her anger, her artistry, her shamanism, this is not a documentary, it’s a document. A spellbinder.
PREMIERE
You could call Dream of Life a loving meditation on a one-of-a-kind performer. And you don’t have to be a Smith fan (I am one, by the way) to enjoy.
THE NEW YORK POST
Few documentaries about living artists get as deep into their subject’s brain and heart as this one about the rock priestess and poetess.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A lovely, emotional artifact.
THE NEW YORK PRESS
Frequently beautiful and intermittently haunting.
SALON.COM
Patti Smith: Dream of Life, fashion photographer Steven Sebring’s impressionistic study of the most influential of punk poets, disarms and charms with its honesty.
TORONTO STAR
Insufferable, endearing, pretentiously arty, bracingly direct, humorless, hilarious, oddly distant and strangely touching, but always compulsively watchable—in other words, a fabulous contradictory mess, much like Smith herself.
BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE
A lovely, drifty first feature that feels less like a documentary and more like an act of rapturous devotion.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A series of elegiac episodes from the life and mind of the fantabulous rock n’ roll chanteuse and poetess.
SLANT
Steven Sebring’s gorgeous, up-close-and-personal doc about the legendary rocker is both a journey into Smith’s storied past and a portrait of her life today.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
The titular rocker-poet gets a suitable portrait in Steven Sebring’s Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which runs radically against the grain of American-made pop music docs.
VARIETY
