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Pop Icon Peaches and Filmmaker Marie Losier Decentralize Cool With Venice Doc ‘Peaches Goes Bananas’


The Venice doc 'Peaches Goes Bananas' shares a side of the pop icon rarely seen before.

The journey towards this year’s Venice Film Festival began nearly two decades ago for documentarian Marie Losier and pop icon Merrill Nisker – better known to the world as Peaches. For well before she emerged as a Berlin-based icon, the young singer taught music to Torontonian tots, and she likens the process to a kind of trial by fire in which the Peaches stage presence was forged. Given the film’s mammoth production, the very passage of time emerges as a key theme – while seeing the artist interact with her own parents underscores one of Nisker’s main concerns.

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