Bring on the Night (1985)

Original title

Sting - Bring on the Night

Directed by

Michael Apted

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Sting as he forms a new jazz-inspired band and prepares for his first solo tour. The band rehearses at a French chateau and the film captures their creative process and personal moments.

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What happens

Bring On the Night is a 1985 documentary film directed by Michael Apted, focusing on the jazz-inspired project and band led by the British musician Sting during the early stages of his solo career and first solo tour. Some of the songs in the film appeared on his debut solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The film won the Grammy Award for "Best Music Video, Long Form" at the 1987 Grammy Awards. Much of the film takes place inside the French Château de Courson outside of Paris, where the band met, lived and rehearsed for nine days. Near the end of the film the band plays their first concert at Théâtre Mogador in Paris. The final scene shows Sting attending his wife Trudie Styler as she gives birth to Jake, their second child and Sting's fourth. Sting said he "resisted" Apted's suggestion of filming the birth, but then he "realized there's a tenuous link between the band being born and the baby, so it fit." The film was named after the Police song "Bring On the Night" (1979), it is also the title of Sting's 1986 live album featuring music recorded during the 1985 tour chronicled in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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