When You're Strange

Title: When You’re Strange

Genre: Musical Documental.

Directed by Tom DiCillo

Script: Tom Dicillo

Stars: Johnny Depp (narrator), John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison.

Nationality: USA

This is the first documental movie about The Doors. It tells us the story of one of the most obscure and dangerous band that have ever existed in the world of rock and roll.

                Using only original material, mostly unpublished and filmed in large part by the same Morrison between 1966 and 1971 –period of existence of the group -, the director, Tom DiCillo, lodged the band and its context at 1960 in America. The documental haven’t got present interviews. The movie promotes the immediacy and modernity of itself as a movie. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the film opens a window to the world of the excesses of fame, drugs and alcohol in a group that triumphed but always stood firm in his belief to be true to the music. Although the life of Jim Morrison, busy and full of excess, marked the film guide, in fact is the story of four musicians: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. The four, thanks to their insistence, their artistic freedom and their commitment to the fashions, managed to become the benchmark for a generation (and do many generations later), marking an epoch.