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Sara Bareilles and Josh Alexander Discuss Tribeca Doc 'Good Grief' — An Intimate Studio Portrait of Loss and Creativity

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Chris Willman

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The article covers Sara Bareilles and director Josh Alexander discussing their documentary 'Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,' which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film provides an intimate, fly-on-the-wall look at Bareilles in the recording studio, centered on an album about loss. The documentary explores how Bareilles reinterprets the common phrase "good grief" in a literal sense, finding meaning in grief and creativity.

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In writing an album that is largely about loss and calling it 'Good Grief,' Sara Bareilles is clearly playing with the wording of that common phrase, finding a way to make it feel literal, not like an oxymoron.
This powerful and absorbing film is on the one hand as good a fly-on-the-wall rendering of what it's like to be in a recording studio as you can get in a documentary.
The documentary explores how Bareilles reinterprets the common phrase 'good grief' in a literal sense, finding meaning in grief and creativity.
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Singer Sara Bareilles and director Josh Alexander discuss their documentary, 'Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,' premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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