Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story
Robert Bralver, David Ferino:
Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story (USA, 2011)
86 min. - English
Age limit 12 years
Don’t you know who Mark Sandman is? Don’t you have any albums by Morphine in your record collection? If you said yes, feel free to be ashamed and quickly log on to the Internet or gallop to the nearest record store and find out what you’ve been missing out on. Or just go and see this film!
The solemn and elegant Cure for Pain tells the story of a forgotten rock legend. Mark Sandman, who died dramatically in the middle of a gig, was the singer, bassist and the soul of the low rock group Morphine. In a perfect world he would be one of the brightest stars in the canon of music. Morphine - which consisted of Sandman and his bass, drums and a saxophone - created a completely unique sound and a way of composing songs. As a persona, Sandman was throiughly an artist – a backward dandy, mysterious poet, intoxicated genius and an interpreter of gloomy songs pursued by demons and eventually died with his boots on during a show.
Balver and Ferino widly acclaimed film tells Sandman’s life story in an intimate and classy way without revealing everything – just like Morphine’s songs. The biggest question mark left lingering in the air is what Morphine could have been truly capable of creating, had Sandman not tragically died that night in Italy. The magnificent posthumously released album The Night proves that the world missed out on a lot of greatness with Sandman’s passing.
Sun 18th Nov at 5:00pm Tapio 3