Movie
Perfect Lives
1984 · 175 min
A hypnotic, talk-sung opera that drifts through small-town vignettes like a dream, rewarding patience with strange beauty.
- Directed by
- John Sanborn
- Genres
- Tv movie, Music
- Starring
- Robert Ashley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jill Kroesen
- Tagline
- An opera for television
- Overview
- Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
- How it feels
- Absurd, satirical, eerie and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Art, music, crime, love
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- John Sanborn
- Genres
- Tv movie, Music
- Starring
- Robert Ashley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jill Kroesen
