Music documentaries can get a little boring and empty of content. Not always, but mostly. If it tries to be psychedelic... well it can get pretentious too (perhaps it worked in the 70s). This is different though.
It's a road-movie music documentary, it's fun, it's amusing and very well structured. The more trippy sequences are well achieved, they aren't overdone at all... the real life part sometimes seem more psychedelic! It also surprised me the amount of fluent Welsh speakers in Patagonia, I wouldn't have thought there were so many of them. One thing that is not minor is that it doesn't avoid historical events that needed at least mentioning.
It is well filmed and well edited. Apparently they did have a lot of footage to work through, so it makes it an even better job. The motion-graphics as very nice too.
My favourite scenes: Brazilean musician introducing "Chiffy!" and the 'gigs' for the Welsh speaking people (who were probably expecting something traditional) with old ladies covering their ears
Separado!
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