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Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets

2014 · 1h 30m · N/A Documentary, Music
Directed by Florian Habicht

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Overview

Pulp found fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including ‘Common People’ and ‘Disco 2000’. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. Giving a career-best performance exclusive to the film, the band members share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality — & car maintenance. Director Florian Habicht (Love Story) weaves together the band’s personal offerings with dream-like specially-staged tableaux featuring ordinary people recruited on the streets of Sheffield. Pulp is a music film like no other — by turns funny, moving, life-affirming & (occasionally) bewildering.

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The abbreviated history may mystify people who don't already know the basics. But the film does offer a vivid portrait of Cocker - wit, unlikely casanova and quite possibly hypochondriac - and an intriguing if glancing one of Doyle.

Mark Jenkins, NPR
Fresh

Habicht never dives too deeply or casts his net too widely, but as a filmic love letter to Sheffield, the resulting doc is full of small delights for serious Pulp fans.

Laura M. Browning, AV Club
Fresh

A bright, eccentric testament to the mutual regard that Pulp's members and ordinary Sheffield residents feel about one another.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

These random encounters, as well as brief interviews with band members ... effortlessly capture the bond between this former steel town's spirit and the ineluctable tug of Mr. Cocker's lyrics.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

This is a film about many things, but maybe it's mostly about the mingled tragedy and glory of coming from where you came from.

Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice

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