‘Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free’ Film Review: Ragged Documentary Fits the Man and the Music
thewrap.comAlso Read: How 'Somewhere You Feel Free' Director Captured Tom Petty's 'Mid-Life Crisis'Drawn largely from 16mm film shot in and around the studio in the early ’90s, it’s cinema verité in feel even though it mixes in contemporary interviews with Rubin, Petty’s musical compadres Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench and others.
Petty himself is heard in audio-only interviews that date back to the period of the recording; it’s disconcerting to hear his voice drop in without any context supplied, but it helps to have some explanation of his mindset at the time.Constructed out of bits and pieces, the film at times feels a little haphazard and thrown together, though that also fits with the process we’re watching, in which Petty was figuring out a new.
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