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All Your Questions About Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement Movie, Answered
Perhaps no movie playing at Venice this year was as shrouded in mystery as Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements.
These rehearsals really happened, and the musical really did have two public workshops in December 2022, with real actors like Zoe Lister-Jones and Broadway’s Michael Esper in the cast. In the fall of 2022, Perry curated a pop-up museum in New York City showcasing “previously unseen imagery, artwork, and ephemera” from Pavement’s archives for the purposes of this film. This, too, had elements of fiction: The exhibit also included “relics of the band’s real and imagined history,” and the film’s framing device of a newscast from “New York News” is of course an invention.
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