of Montreal: Family Nouveau

It's a bizarre celebration when of Montreal tours eleven European cities in twelve nights at the dawn of Obama's presidency. Following the band for eleven days, director and UGA English instructor Spenser Simrill Jr. offers glimpses of Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris and, most significantly, the landscape of the human body, as the film captures of Montreal's bizarre stage antics and their equally bizarre backstage confessionals and pushup competitions. "The triumph of "Family Nouveau" is how well it captures the practical nitty-gritty of being so darn eccentric. Kevin Barnes is at once macho and fey, an ambiguous figure who seems to occupy a sexual space outside of gender. The resulting 45-minute film—distilled from 50 hours of footage—is a portrait of the artists as half-naked adults." --The Daily Cardinal Feature Documentary: USA/Canada, 2010, 45 min Director: Spenser Simrill, Jr. Editor: Allie Goolrick Color-correction: Matt Evans