My Prairie Home

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My Prairie Home

2013

1h 16m

Documentary

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Transgender musical artist Rae Spoon visits stretches of rural Alberta to confront memories of an abusive household.

Malaika Aleba

Autostraddle

My Prairie Home is more than pretty skies and poetic wheat fields. It's also about growing up different in a difficult environment and what it means to survive.

Jun 14, 2021

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Daniel Fienberg

HitFix

[It] doesn't overstay its welcome and doesn't strain for profundity. It just happens to be a length that was simultaneously easily satisfying and left me yearning for just a bit more.

Jan 22, 2014

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Andrew Barker

Variety

Director Chelsea McMullan captures Canadian trangender folk singer Rae Spoon's music and life story in sensitive detail.

Jan 19, 2014

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

Chelsea McMullan's portrait of transgender singer Rae Spoon provides a poetic tour of Canada's prairie heartland.

Jun 10, 2020

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Daniel Walber

Nonfics (Substack)

Somewhere between biography and visual album, My Prairie Home fuses McMullan's skill and Spoon's musical style into a singularly beautiful journey through the occasionally unfriendly but often breathtaking air of Alberta.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 5, 2014

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Glenn Dunks

The Film Experience

My Prairie Home is melodic, poetic, and beautifully complicated bliss. An utterly beguiling documentary discovery.

Rated: A-

Jan 26, 2014

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Audience Member

***Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.***

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Visually lovely in a Wes Anderson way but the subject matter cannot bear the weight of the duration of the film. 45 minutes would have been more than enough to tell this particular story which becomes more hagiography/music video than documentary at times.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

Beautiful enough to make someone help me, who grew up in the prairies and hated it, have a new appreciation for them and all things Alberta. Rae Spoon's voice seems to fit the prairies like a glove, capturing its loneliness and yet also its strange sense of comfort.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Worth seeing just for the beautiful music alone. A skillful documentary about a talented, transgendered performer.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Chelsea McMullan

Director

Chelsea McMullan

Screenwriter

Lea Marin

Producer

Rae Spoon

Original Music

Maya Bankovic

Cinematographer

Derek Howard

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Synopsis

Transgender musical artist Rae Spoon visits stretches of rural Alberta to confront memories of an abusive household.

Director: Chelsea McMullan
Producer: Lea Marin
Screenwriter: Chelsea McMullan
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2017
Runtime: 1h 16m

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