Title: Peaches Goes Bananas
MPA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Marie Losier
Starring: Peaches, Marlene Saldana
Runtime: 1 hr 13 mins

What It Is: A documentary about the free-spirited trailblazing feminist musician and icon Merrill Nisker, AKA Peaches, her music, concerts, and thoughts on subjects such as being middle-aged as a female artist, family, and art.

What We Think: 41:00 – “FREE PUSSY.”

Anyone who adores punk female musicians knows Peaches, and is probably hot, as she’s literally the blueprint for all hot silly bitches who are here to have a good time. After all, the teaches of Peaches is all about is self-adoration and artistic freedom. We have the pleasure of admiring and seeing that firsthand in this doc as the filmmakers follow around our experimental star’s journey as she experiences one of the biggest tours of her life, as well as looking back at her burgeoning into fame. It’s wonderfully inspirational to see someone so unabashed in their art, performing using silly and bombastic imagery with generous use of boobie and weenie gags featured heavily as props and on costumes. Think GWAR for gays and Riot Grrl fans. Nudity is an on-stage must as a delightful reminder to, once again, free the goddamn nipple and enjoy having your body!

Unlike your average concert tour doc, this one rings differently with its sense of style and its surreal tone of voice paired with Peaches’ oddball fashion and performances. Between the mundane, familiar, and precious, scenes set in reality, the film jumps into something disorienting and strange (don’t, or do watch this high) both in its content of the wild and silly, to the cathartic and emotionally wrought. It’s always just the right amount of strangeness and punching of style without being too overstated, shot with a down-to-earth wash of filmic grain and bright colors and often forming what are accidental renaissance paintings. The mise-en-scene make you feel present as you realize you’re watching musical history as its unfolded over the past few decades.

Our Grade: B+, A wonderful concert and biopic documentary about Peaches, her thoughts on aging, and the expression of love and grief. The film’s admittedly cooly-edited veneer matched with equally artful imagery on behalf of mad scientist, Peaches, makes for a mesmerizing watch and a reminder on how to keep on rocking, no matter what may come or how many years go by. Just a big warning: you WILL have “Fuck the Pain Away” stuck in your head–again.