“This Is PPBB”: a musical docu-fiction about failure, dreams, and sisterhood, filmed in the spirit of the classic mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap”
Every creative person who experiences professional failures year after year at some point catches themselves with the frightening thought that they have already missed the time when they could still blow up. Álfrún, Saga, and Hrefna are forty-year-old friends from Reykjavik who perform in small bars as the avant-garde electro-punk trio Post Performance Blues Band. As time goes on, their growls about “dysfunctional dysfunctionality” are still heard by about fifteen people at every concert, and ladies also have to manage combining a creative career with motherhood and somehow competing with the Gen Z, who are increasingly occupying the Icelandic music scene. Tired of performing for a glass of beer, the heroines give themselves exactly one year to turn into pop stars; otherwise, they will stop making music forever. “Band” is a post-doc comedy directed by PPBB frontwoman and voice actress (Lisa from “The Simpsons”, by the way, speaks Icelandic in her voice) Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir. Punkily blurring the line between reality and fiction, the film tells a touching little story about a big dream and the triumph of sisterhood.
Original language: Icelandic Subtitles: Belarusian | English