No One Said It Would Be Easy – 7

A movie I’d never heard of about a band I’d never heard of, and I thoroughly enjoyed them both.  Shown at the Minneapolis Film Festival, this work started as a promotional video that grew, at Cloud Cult’s request, into the whole story of Greg Minowa and his personal quest to make music. It combined home footage with talking heads with one fully filmed concert number and the result was everything I wanted to know about this bunch of Minnesotans who hold down jobs and perform because it’s their mission. In Anvil, we were looking at the band from outside; in this film it felt we were on the inside. And unlike Anvil’s music, Cloud Cult’s is haunting, in a Wilco way, and I went out and bought a record and am glad I did.

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