The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Released Mar 8, 2012

1h 12m

Documentary

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Performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and his lover, Lady Jaye, express their deep bond by melding their identities through plastic surgery.

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Amy Taubin

Film Comment Magazine

The result is a movie where actions that might seem, at a cursory glance, to be radical to the point of madness become perfectly rational expressions of that crazy thing called love.

Aug 27, 2019

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

This edgy documentary manages to tell an affecting love story even as it ventures into the cultish, transgressive world of underground music.

May 16, 2013

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

The film takes the viewer not just into the world of Genesis and Lady Jaye, but somehow, as a true ballad should, into their hearts.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 12, 2012

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

I can truly say, I have never seen anything quiet like this film.

Jun 26, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Very human.

Rated: B

Oct 26, 2012

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Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

Director Marie Losier's film is informative but it is also more often than not irritating in both content and technique. (A film) more to be endured than enjoyed.

Rated: C-

Apr 13, 2012

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Especially interesting for Throbbing Gristle and industrial music fans but also a moving love story

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Great documentary. I didn't know that Genesis P-Orridge was the father of Industrial music.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

It's amazing check it out

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

Amazing sweet and sincere

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

The bad reviews seem to be a result of people going into this film with certain expectations of what the story should be without just letting the story just be. The philosophy behind the editing/storytelling is pretty radical: embracing the documentary format as just that, a document, a cipher and incomplete. A story has to be invented to fill the void.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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I admit that in part, my lower rating is attributable to the fact that I don't know really what the two ladies were out to express. The documentary flounders by not rooting us in the cultural reaction to their work and takes up far too much time showing footage of them goofing around for the sake of expression.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

Performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and his lover, Lady Jaye, express their deep bond by melding their identities through plastic surgery.

Director: Marie Losier
Producer: Steve Holmgren, Marie Losier, Charlotte Mangin, Martin Marquet
Distributor: Adopt Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 8, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 15, 2020
Runtime: 1h 12m

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