A dog called money, 2019, Ireland/ United Kingdom/ United States, Dir. Seamus Murphy (PJ Harvey)
This week, Pop Screen has been thinking about a line drawn in the sand: specifically, a line drawn between the reasonable criticisms of PJ Harvey’s 2016 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, and the ones that took her to task for not working out a viable model for bringing stable democracy to Afghanistan. (Yes, really) 2019’s Seamus Murphy-directed documentary A Dog Called Money reopened the controversies, and it is this film that Aidan and Graham have gathered to discuss this week.
On the way, we also consider the always-surprising career of Harvey, as well as our favourite albums by her. We talk about Hope Six’s status as an album that feels eerily predictive of 2016’s political turmoil, and the many bizarrely-titled offcuts from the record that appear in this film and nowhere else. It’s the closest we’ve ever got to a polemic: we really love this album, we really love this film, we really love PJ Harvey and we’re sure we can convert you too.
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