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Sara Bareilles: Good Grief

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For the first time in seven years, Grammy winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns to the studio with dear friends to begin recording her most intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief. Internationally known for pop anthems like "Love Song" and "Brave", this cinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara's creative process as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one's own pain to create art, and the hope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself might ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.

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Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness 15h
4/5
... at once, private, intimate, and raw, while also a hilarious celebration of human existence, demonstrating that the people we surround ourselves with, the village we make, can be the difference between finding solid ground or drowning in loss. Go to Full Review Peter Gray The AU Review 22h
4/5
Warm, cathartic, and disarmingly honest, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief is less a documentary about recording an album than it is a portrait of what it means to keep creating – and keep loving – after loss. Go to Full Review Carla Renata The Curvy Film Critic 1d
Good Grief gives the audience permission to evolve into a better version from being in the orbit of someone we loved and who loved us illuminating the way like the brightest star in the orbit just waiting for the chance to shine. Go to Full Review Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat 1d
Good Grief is an illuminating film about how an album is recorded. It’s an even better film about how pain can be transformed into something healing. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Josh Alexander

Director

Sara Bareilles

Self

Butterfly Boucher

Self

Misty Boyce

Self

Solomon Dorsey

Self

Charley Drayton

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Synopsis For the first time in seven years, Grammy winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns to the studio with dear friends to begin recording her most intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief. Internationally known for pop anthems like "Love Song" and "Brave", this cinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara's creative process as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one's own pain to create art, and the hope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself might ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.
Director
Josh Alexander
Producer
Josh Alexander, Daniel J. Chalfen
Screenwriter
Josh Alexander
Genre
Biography, Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 34m