Blur: No Distance Left To Run
By
Stop Crying Your Heart Out
on
January 14, 2010
Cert 15, 104mins
5/5
Hot on the heels of their reunion at last year's Glastonbury Festival, this terrific documentary takes a look at the ups and downs of reluctant Britpoppers Blur.
Refusing to gloss over hard truths, this is access-all-areas stuff as the four members discuss their rivalry with Oasis, guitarist Graham Coxon's alcoholism and the turmoil that led to their six-year hiatus.
Anchored by footage of their reunion, we examine the band's Essex childhoods and how being Britain's biggest band in the mid-90s almost did for them.
While lead singer Damon Albarn is charmingly self-deprecatory, it's Coxon who's the best value, amusingly reminiscing about his stint in rehab and how he'd avoid showbiz parties filled with women "dressed like spiders" for the normality of Camden boozers.
A celebration of music and friendship, and a document of the vacuousness of Cool Britannia, documentaries don't get any better.
Source: www.mirror.co.uk