I love it when indie kids and trust-fund hipsters try to act like they do “important” stuff. You know, like have mustache parties or stay out until 4 a.m. on weeknights. Well, that seems to be the main problem with the All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary, too.

It tries to pass off the fest and its ethos as something meaningful, when it’s really just a festival where the music is extra good. Spiked’s Tom Slater seems to hit the nail on the head, too:

The message, as it turns out, is that we as young musos should band together and reclaim youth culture from the jaws of the corporate world. It’s a viable, if somewhat predictable, statement, but for some reason the film proceeds to undermine its own argument … Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore sums up this doomed maxim perfectly when, at one point, he asks a group of twentysomethings if they felt youth culture needed to be reclaimed from ‘the man’. Needless to say their blank faces and nervous laughter speak volumes.

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   [...] that just yesterday we were talking about a festival documentary where the premise is that folks are gathering to make some sort of sea change culturally — [...]

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