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Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleMost important, the relationship between P-Orridge and Lady Jaye comes off as heartfelt, and "Ballad" makes you feel something. Just like art.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichLosier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovTrue love is never having to say goodbye … because when you look in the mirror, there s/he is.
- 75The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonGenesis And Lady Jaye accurately portrays a restless artist with a kitchen-sink aesthetic, and offers up a film to match.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)It's rare for a documentary style to match its subject so ideally.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis impressionistic approach eschews traditional biography, instead giving the viewer the feeling of being inside a moment, without necessarily providing all the information we might need to contextualize what we're seeing.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisHighlighting the wacky while playing down the distasteful, Marie Losier's playful profile of the English musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his second wife, Lady Jaye, takes a lighthearted look at the things they did for love.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie doesn't exactly argue anything. It's mostly a collection of scenes and footage, directed by Losier in plumes of abstraction and unified by Megson's voice-over.
- 50Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneThe Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye tries so hard to keep up with the quirkiness and theatricality of its subjects that it ends up canceling them out.
- 38Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanIf it's art, it's only mildly interesting.