A rock legend plays a washed-up rock legend. Meta doesn't even begin to cover it.
Acting
Eric Burdon bleeds real-life rock trauma into every frame.
Direction
Buschmann's documentary instincts make fiction feel uncomfortably real.
Director
Christel Buschmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eric Burdon was genuinely struggling commercially when cast; this was his first dramatic lead and effectively his own comeback attempt.
The film premiered at Cannes but vanished almost immediately—embodying its own subject matter with tragic precision.
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