It’s Always Bad Until It’s Good: An Interview with Tom Berninger, Director of Mistaken for Strangers
When it was released, Mistaken for Strangers was met with very high praise from critical sources. Beyond that (and perhaps more importantly) there was also a distinct and measurable undercurrent of critics and audiences developing a very personal connection to the film. Predictably, some of that personal reaction came from fans of the massively popular band The National, whose tour is the subject of the film. Still others related heavily to the pressures of imbalanced sibling rivalry. I connected with the film for an entirely different reason. When I selected the out-of-nowhere rock documentary for my list of the...
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