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Reviewing a concert film can offer a challenge. There are ways of classifying them as “not necessarily music” or “not really a movie” but in joining the two they’re essentially bringing together two great mediums of art. Unlike any other band that I can think of, the music of Sigur Rós is more cinematic than anything I can recall hearing. It’s why their music has been used in climaxes of movies like 127 Hours or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Directed by Vincent Morisset, Inni showcases the work of Icelandic band Sigur Rós. Over the films duration the group plays nine songs and in between pieces, the audience is often given behind the scenes videos…

[My Willamette Week review]
Sigur Ros are one of the few bands to understand that to make a concert film means approaching it cinematically first. To that end, their second such live document features footage of the Icelandic group performing their anthemic rock that has been distressed into hazy black and white visions. Images of the band smear across the screen as if viewing the show through a skein of tears or are pixelated into a hallucinatory miasma. It matches up beautifully with the dreamlike quality of the band's music. Unfortunately, the quartet, or director Vincet Morisset, made the decision to snap viewers out of their fugue state by cutting in brash videotaped footage of the band members early in…