The concert film captures 2023’s biggest pop culture event with breathless fervour and crystal clarity – honing in on the details easily missed in the live show
‘Inexhaustible talent’ … Taylor Swift performs onstage at LA’s SoFi stadium. The pop star’s Era Tour film has been released in cinemas worldwide.‘Inexhaustible talent’ … Taylor Swift performs onstage at LA’s SoFi stadium. The pop star’s Era Tour film has been released in cinemas worldwide.and social media this summer, has fashioned herself as 2023’s main character. With the global release of her concert film, the 33-year-old singer is arguably teetering on the brink of overexposure.
that mostly engulfed Swift’s voice in person, at least at the two shows that I attended. The film allows for extended stretches of riotous cheering, but Swift rings above, clear as a bell. And Wrench’s meticulous shots often emphasise the supporting cast – dancers, backing vocalists, band – that get overshadowed in the live show’s heady focus on her.
Sans the costume change breaks and with seven inconspicuous elisions from the LA setlist, the concert’s runtime – normally upwards of three hours – clocks in at a respectable two hours, 45 minutes on screen. It could be shorter; though every song had people in my screening bopping along, it can feel like a marathon without the collective energy of 70,000 people.
The camerawork is less steady, tending to mirror the volume of the song; the louder the bass, the more breathless the cuts. It can be a dizzying, at times exhausting racket of edits, and a relief when the camera allows the show’s most searing moments of fan-idol connection – the blistering All Too Well, the nostalgic acoustic section, Swift’s oddly precocious banter – to proceed with minimal theatrics.
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