Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

Released Jun 30, 2021

1h 15m

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Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since the beginning.

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

Both as a portrait of an outsider artist and as an account of abuse survival, this film, by Lunch's No Wave contemporary Beth B, is a compulsively watchable cultural document.

Aug 22, 2021

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David Fear

Rolling Stone

The War Is Never Over is as much about trauma and processing and empowerment -- the real kind, not the bumper-sticker-slogan kind -- as it about music, or a musician, or a cultural moment.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 2, 2021

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Kimber Myers

Los Angeles Times

As short, anarchic and explosive as a punk song, "Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over" remains true to the genre in its approach to the story of the No Wave queen.

Jul 30, 2021

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Sarah Vincent

Cambridge Day

The documentary might have been stronger had there been more of the artist recalling her life and career directly, since she is such a provocative raconteur

Rated: 2/4

Aug 16, 2023

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Dolores Quintana

Dolores Quintana

Lydia Lunch - "We used to be warriors. Women. How we have devolved. From Medusa to Madonna, from Kali to Courtney Love, from Durga to Uma Thurman.

Dec 31, 2021

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Kathy Fennessy

Seattle Film Blog

It may represent the less sexy part of her story, but when it comes to sticking it to the man--Lunch's modus operandi--acting as her own boss was one of the most punk things she ever did.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 7, 2021

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Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since the beginning.

Director: Beth B
Producer: Beth B
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 30, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 30, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.8K
Runtime: 1h 15m

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