‘Summer Tour’ Review: A Documentary About Deadheads That’s as Blissed-Out and Navel-Gazing as Its Subjects
(The revolution was about protest, but it was also about selling designer psychedelic candles.) If you wanted to come up with the cynical definition of a...
Key points
- (The revolution was about protest, but it was also about selling designer psychedelic candles.) If you wanted to come up with the cynical definition of a Deadhead, the term that describes those blissed-out nomad followers of the Grateful Dead, you could call them middle-class kids dropping out to cosplay the ’60s.
- They’ve been doing it for quite a while, and Mischa Richter’s rambling Deadhead documentary “Summer Tour” reminds us that they’re still at it.
- Popular on Variety The movie, which counts Chloë Sevigny as one of its producers, unveils the 2023 version of Deadheads, who are seen following the national tour of Dead & Company (whose members include key remnants of the Dead), in what was billed as the group’s final tour.
- The third generation are the shaggy Zoomers we see in “Summer Tour,” notably the two central figures, Jeremiah Pierce and Annabelle Dunne, known as Jerry and Annie.
What happened
(The revolution was about protest, but it was also about selling designer psychedelic candles.) If you wanted to come up with the cynical definition of a Deadhead, the term that describes those blissed-out nomad followers of the Grateful Dead, you could call them middle-class kids dropping out to cosplay the ’60s. They’ve been doing it for quite a while, and Mischa Richter’s rambling Deadhead documentary “Summer Tour” reminds us that they’re still at it. Popular on Variety The movie, which counts Chloë Sevigny as one of its producers, unveils the 2023 version of Deadheads, who are seen following the national tour of Dead & Company (whose members include key remnants of the Dead), in what was billed as the group’s final tour. The third generation are the shaggy Zoomers we see in “Summer Tour,” notably the two central figures, Jeremiah Pierce and Annabelle Dunne, known as Jerry and Annie. But what’s peculiar, and telling, about “Summer Tour” is that the film offers no larger vantage — no sense of who these people are outside their Deadhead wanderings, and no larger perspective on how the whole Deadhead thing now fits into the culture. “Summer Tour” weaves in dozens of Dead songs...
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