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  Review by ₳ⱠØⱠ ★★★★★ 2

  EVERYONE WATCH THIS

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  Review by Harry72 ★★★★

  And here we are. The final film of DocFest.

  This is a music documentary about singer and guitarist Hak Baker who's passion for music started in an unconventional way. In the ends of East London, he belonged to lad culture committing various petty crimes in doing so. One day that caught up with him and he went to prison but there he won a raffle and recieved a guitar. His rise to fame where in a decade he plays out to a jam-packed crowd is the type of joyous rags to riches tale typical for a fiction film.

  Hak Baker is in fact a real musican, if not one I've heard of before and some of his songs are like…

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  Review by jamble (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧ ★★★★½

  what a reinvention of the music biopic/documentary. what a blessing to see it on IMAX and what an insight to hear from James, Ivo and Hak himself

  there's a line in the doc I don't want to paraphrase and butcher but something along the lines of Hak's guitar being just a wooden instrument with six strings and how it is a symbol of life and its different journeys - it was here that I felt the doc was a window into not just Hak's life but his mind and his being

  seeing the extended cut with the additional footage made it feel like we were watching home videos with him, with his mum in the crowd as well as his…

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  Review by Mikey ★★★★

  Should have seen my eyes light up when the opening gave me "Stop Making Sense" vibes. The whole film does give a similar feeling, it is a long music video / access ALL areas concert film but they do it so well! So charming, the film and Hak himself. Wish it could be longer because I do wish there was more time to go into all the topics he has the experience and knowledge to talk about

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  Review by Billyjclark ★★★★★

  Vibes edit. Lyrical madness, fuckin ur dadness. Glenfiddich finish. Unbelievable debut

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  Review by pridat ★★★½

  the emotionssssss 🤍this is special

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  Review by Mitchell ★★★½

  WOW. Now this was something special. If I were dealing with something of this length, this is so much more powerful and precious than a simple concert film would be able to achieve. But even then I totally could have sat for another half an hour of this, but I guess a performance from the man himself afterwards more than makes up for it.

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  Review by Curtis 1

  It’s hard to get behind any self-produced music doc, but especially difficult when I have no investment in the half-revelations offered. Cool visuals though!

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  Review by lanre ★★★★★

  laughed, cried, listened to some of my favourite tunes- 

  you can’t watch this and not fall in love with Hak Baker