SummaryFilmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since the beginning.
Directed By:Beth B
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
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Aug 1, 2021
80
This is a messy, riotous film worthy of Lunch herself, and just like Lunch, it isn’t asking to be liked.
Jul 1, 2021
80
Lunch’s entire aesthetic is centered around trauma: how abusers dispense it, how it is — and how she thinks it ought to be — received, and turned back on the world.
Jun 30, 2021
70
The War Is Never Over is as much about trauma and processing and empowerment — the real kind, not the bumper-sticker-slogan kind — as it about music, or a musician, or a cultural moment. What it leaves out of Lydia’s history is substituted by what it adds to understanding her story.
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Release Date:Jun 30, 2021
Duration:1 h 17 m
Awards
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
