synopsis
Hitting every Canadian province and territory, Jack and Meg White took their crunching art-blues-rock to Iqaluit and Charlottetown, Edmonton and Toronto. As documented in this concert tour film, they also let the cameras capture the inner life of one of music's most mysterious duos. As is typical for the White Stripes, it began with a concept: a complete tour of Canada, but with each performance a spontaneous act. That meant rocking out on a city bus in Winnipeg, a bowling alley in Saskatoon, a youth drop-in centre in Edmonton and a YMCA day camp in Toronto. In Charlottetown, they gig on a boat in the harbour. In St. John's, Newfoundland, they perform a concert of exactly one note.
Backstage and between gigs, director Emmett Malloy keeps an observant eye on the relationship between Jack and Meg. The fact that Jack talks and Meg largely doesn't has become a running joke between them. So has the exact nature of their relationship. They were once married, but for years claimed in interviews to be brother and sister. True to the Stripes' carefully designed look, Malloy shoots much of the film in their signature black, white and red. Their stripped-down, pop-art stage sets make a perfect backdrop for the spare, sonic attack of their music, and the lo-fi punch of their sound seems especially Canadian in this context.
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