Director: Vincent Morisset
Canada/Frankrig 2008, 70 min.

Arcade Fire relaxing and at full throttle in a visual and musical dream-doc

Elevator concerts, communal singing, mad telephone threats and remote-controlled cars. All of it in one, big, hypnotic film about what is possibly the largest indie-band around today. In a nice mixture of music video, Vincent Moon take away show, alternative 'making-of' documentary and concert film, 'Miroir Noir' follows Arcade Fire on their around-the-world tour and up close in the studio as they prepare the recording of their latest album 'Neon Bible'. Much is left to the spectator in this highly original work of music film art. But the sensual Super 8 footage, the alternatingly moving and insane messages from fans and non-fans (!) on the band's answering machine and the fantastic scenes, where Wyn Butler and co. hurl themselves into playing among their thousands of spectators: all of this you get served on a silver platter by Moon and his namesake, the hip music video director Morisset. The latter ended up with the directing credit for the film - but no matter what, Moon has left his visual fingerprint in the most beautiful way possible all over 'Miroir Noir'.