Avicii: True Stories
A candid music documentary tracing Avicii’s meteoric rise, creative brilliance, and the health costs of life under global performance pressure.
Overview
Experience the highs and lows of a musical genius who changed the electronic music landscape forever.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- None
- reflective
- intimate
- foreboding
- music discovery
- documentary night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the documentary’s visceral access to Avicii’s talent and the personal cost of fame, while finding its promotional optimism incomplete in light of his later fate.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Avicii’s chart dominance and escalating health scares are presented alongside the pressures of constant performance.
The film follows Avicii as a composer and performer while featuring comments from David Guetta, Tiësto, Nile Rodgers, and other collaborators.
The film’s hopeful portrait of Avicii’s freedom and artistic achievement is shadowed by his documented health struggles and tragic later trajectory.
Worldwide chart success, international DJ performance, and collaborations with major electronic and pop musicians define the subject’s cultural setting.
Films like Avicii: True Stories, and why
Amy
music documentary portrait of a globally successful performer confronting the personal costs of fame and relentless touring
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
intimate artist documentary balancing creative achievement, backstage access, and psychological strain
Daft Punk Unchained
concert and career documentary focused on an electronic music icon, public success, and private pressures
Movie Details
- Director
- Levan Tsikurishvili
- Release Date
- 2017-10-26
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 (361)
Cast
- Avicii
- David Guetta
- Tiësto
- Mike Einziger
- Nile Rodgers
- Wyclef Jean
- Chris Martin
- Aloe Blacc
- Barack Obama
- Salem Al Fakir
Common questions
- What is Avicii: True Stories about?
- A candid music documentary tracing Avicii’s meteoric rise, creative brilliance, and the health costs of life under global performance pressure.
- What is Avicii: True Stories like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Avicii: True Stories as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Avicii: True Stories violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Avicii: True Stories.
- What did critics think of Avicii: True Stories?
- Critics broadly praised the documentary’s visceral access to Avicii’s talent and the personal cost of fame, while finding its promotional optimism incomplete in light of his later fate.
- Which films are like Avicii: True Stories?
- Films with a similar feel include Amy, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and Daft Punk Unchained.
- How long is Avicii: True Stories?
- Avicii: True Stories runs 97 minutes.
