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The Icarus Line Must Die

Play trailer Poster for The Icarus Line Must Die Released Jun 20, 2018 Drama Music Play Trailer Watchlist
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The front man of the music group "The Icarus Line" navigates the ups and downs of the Los Angeles music scene.
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Critics Reviews

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April Wolfe TheWrap What sets Grodner's story apart is its intense focus on specific people in the scene who are emblematic of a way of living and surviving in Los Angeles that's slowly dying. Jun 21, 2018 Full Review Noel Murray Los Angeles Times The movie's only intermittently successful at blurring the lines between art and life. But it's a sincerely felt experiment, and it has spirit. Jun 21, 2018 Full Review Emilie Black Cinema Crazed The film as a whole manages to create an atmosphere of despondency and depression that permeates everything and even the viewer after a while. As a sad film, it reaches its goal of transferring the feeling to the audience. Rated: 4/5 Apr 17, 2020 Full Review Morgan Rojas Cinemacy The Icarus Line Must Die is not out to win any Academy Awards or achievements in filmmaking, but what we do have here is a passion project from a passionate person and Joe Cardamone's creative outlet is definitely for our enjoyment. Aug 6, 2018 Full Review Tom Bedford Film Inquiry It's a compelling mood piece that thrives on the city, the people and their music, without glorifying or downplaying the troubles of any of them. Jul 11, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This movie tried so hard to be something but it was such nonsense. All the characters were meaningless. It was just a bunch of "cool guy" people in a black and white movie full of wannabe artsy scenes. You get nothing about the actual music scene nor it's characters inner struggles. It felt like the band icarus line is just a low budge imitation of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The lead even resembles nick cave. I even felt like this was trying to be 20,000 days on earth. I thought it'd be interesting to see how the LA music scene would be represented, but that was a complete let down as well. All acts sounded the same and didn't enhance the film at all. Technically the film looked great but the audio was so poor you couldn't hear any dialogue but then all the music scenes blared through like a reward shoved down your throat. I tried to sit through the whole movie but I couldn't. This is obviously a "cool guy" film by the looks of it's ratings on this site. Most likely all the people who were involved with the film. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member This film rocks, period! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis The front man of the music group "The Icarus Line" navigates the ups and downs of the Los Angeles music scene.
Director
Michael Grodner
Producer
Kristin Slaysman
Screenwriter
Joe Cardamone, Michael Grodner
Distributor
Dark Star Pictures
Genre
Drama, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 20, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 10, 2018
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