Ethan Coen, half of the celebrated Coen Brothers filmmaking duo, goes solo with this all-archival rock doc, whittled down to 73 minutes and stitched together from a mountain of old footage from the musician and producer T Bone Burnett. The mix of live performance clips, sass-mouthed television interviews, and the subject’s unbound showmanship adds up to an “undiluted shot of rock ‘n’ roll moonshine joy” (Variety).
Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a ribald and energising archive montage on the life of taboo-busting rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis.” – Mark Asch, Little White Lies
“Taken on its own terms, the doc can be plenty of fun. It helps that Lewis is a live-wire force with more pure charisma and innate showmanship than just about anyone else on the planet.” – Ben Croll, indieWire