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- 2021
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 37 m
Summary An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
Directed By: Penny Lane
- 2021
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- 1 h 37 m
Listening to Kenny G
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Summary An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
Directed By: Penny Lane
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
81
100% Positive
10 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Lane set out to make a documentary about the nature of taste, and she’s accomplished that with panache.
Even if you’d rather die than be trapped in a broken elevator with endless Kenny G music, Lane’s excellent accomplishment is making 97 minutes about the musician so much smart fun.
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[Lane] proves yet again that nobody can tonally marry edification and entertainment onscreen so effortlessly. It’s masterful.
Ruthlessly entertaining ... Lane is a master archive digger, unearthing priceless artifacts, some damning, others endearing.
It’s a very entertaining trip, but it doesn’t really go anywhere: If you go in loving Kenny G you’ll come out that way, and if you go in hating him you won’t change your mind.
It’s doubtful that die-hard Kenny haters will come away with a new understanding of or appreciation for the man. But for those curious about where he came from and those who want to consider why his beloved status rubs so many people the wrong way, there’s a lot to like.
Listening to Kenny G subtly and surely teases out the mighty and overarching idea of the inseparability of the artist and the art, the notion of art as the embodiment of the artist’s personality—for better or for worse.
Production Company
HBO Documentary Films,
Ringer Films
Release Date Dec 2, 2021
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 1 Nomination
