Steven Sebring, a friend of Patti Smith’s, followed her for eleven years for “Dream of Life,” and the dreamy, scatty black-and-white portrait of the singer allows fans to supply their own footnotes and backstory; others may be mystified. There’s little extended musical footage, but the sound design is impeccable as she moves across her fascinations with ex Robert Mapplethorpe, her children by the late Fred Smith, the graves of Burroughs, Ginsburg, Blake. Her quiet mien elevates the image of the fire of her live and recorded performances. 109m. (Ray Pride)
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