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Year (Jahr): 2024
Release Date (Veröffentlichungsdatum): 2024-07-04
Duration (Spieldauer): 87 min
Director (Regie): Larry Locke
Actors (Schauspieler): Willy DeVille, Chris Frantz, Ben E. King
Title (Originaltitel): Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille
Country (Land): United States of America
Original language (Original-Sprache): English

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TMDB: 7.0
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This documentary by Larry Locke has a simple (and slightly annoying) premise: Willy DeVille was too original to be treated like a footnote, yet he got far less credit than he deserved, both during his lifetime and after. The film walks through decades where DeVille’s sound didn’t really fit neatly into the usual boxes of American music in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. What you get is less “career highlights reel” and more a slow realization. His work mattered. You just needed the right ears at the right time. And maybe, that’s the point. If you like musicians who don’t ask permission, you’ll feel the gap between talent and recognition here.
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Larry Locke schaut Willy DeVille nicht von oben herab an. Eher so: „Okay, warum hat das alles eigentlich nie die Bühne bekommen, die es verdient?“ Der Dokumentarfilm packt das Leben eines Musikers an, der zwischen den Jahrzehnten rutschte wie ein Rollkoffer mit eigener Meinung. In den 70ern, 80ern und 90ern blieb DeVille klar zu eigen, und genau dafür lief er lange unter „zu speziell“. Die Musik sitzt dabei nicht nur im Hintergrund. Sie ist der Beweis, dass hier mehr passiert ist als ein paar gute Songs. Und ja, auch posthum wirkt das Urteil noch nach. Selbst wenn die Anerkennung später kommt, fühlt sich manches an wie verpasst.

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00:01I was laying in bed one night, and I heard it, and I sat up, and I ran over to
00:05the piano.
00:08There's the mystery about Willie. When you get it, it's atomic. It's huge.
00:16He was Prince Valiant, D'Artagnan, and Baudelaire all rolled up into one.
00:21I felt like I had to photograph him.
00:26He was in this bubble of his own creation, and I'm not sure that that really fit with people's idea
00:32of what the rest of the bubble at CBGB's was like.
00:36You know, I have this whole scheme set up. You know, I know what I'm doing.
00:40I thought that when he came to Paris to record, he would make something really different.
00:46That's as good as music gets.
00:49Outrageously romantic in a completely non-romantic time.
00:52Well, we don't know how to market it. We've never heard anything like this before.
00:57My heart was broken.
00:59The rumors flew around.
01:02My love is like a storybook story.
01:06The only thing that'll cure an old junkie is a woman.
01:10Hey, Joe.
01:11Really? Why do you want to do this? It's been done, like, so many times.
01:15I don't know. I want to do this. I want to do this.
01:17So I don't know. The record took off.
01:18He's playing the Olympia in Paris, and he's selling it out, and he can't sell out a beer hall night
01:25here.
01:25Counting the 10 people I brought with me, there was about 30 people in the room.
01:30Then things started to go wrong.
01:32I hope someday it'll go away, but I always have this kind of hunger.
01:37The character Willie DeVille, he's hard to live with.
01:42You're standing in that wing before that man called your name to come on.
01:45You say, okay, this show is not going to happen.
01:48I'm not going to make it.
01:50But when the light hits and you start making that first step.
01:54As a tear fades away.
01:58The invention of Willie DeVille is a great work of art.
02:02A deep, hurting feeling which made a strong effect on you.
02:07All I have is my art.
02:09I'm going out blazing, both guns going.
02:12I don't want to go out quiet.
02:14I don't want to go out quiet.
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