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‘This Is a Film About the Black Keys’ Review: The Duo That Rocks Together Stays Together, Even Amid Communication Breakdowns
‘This Is a Film About the Black Keys,' a rock doc at SXSW, offers a look at successful chemistry and frayed relationships over a 20-year band history.
“This Is a Film About the Black Keys” (which bases its prosaic title on the plainspoken verbiage on the cover of that bestselling “Brothers” album) is a little bit old-fashioned itself, in that it’s about the making and breaking of an actual rock band. But there are plenty of storytellers plugged in, as well, from Beck, the rock star who adopted them as a favorite opening act, to early agents and critics, to Auerbach’s first wife, who is given a surprising opportunity to explain how always playing second fiddle to the Keys’ career hastened their divorce. And yet it wasn’t, even though things got to the point where the Black Keys had a five-year lapse between albums in the late 2010s where, says Carney, “I maybe spoke to Dan twice, maybe exchanged less than 10 text messages over three years.” (Presumably their worried managers were communicating a little more than that.)
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