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am Trying to Break Your Heart begins during the recording sessions for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and succeeds in breaking the viewer’s heart as one watches an optimistic band record while pausing to sing the praises of their record label, Reprise, for giving them a free hand in the execution of their album. “They’ve given us $85,000 to record it,” laughs bandmember Jay Bennett, “and they haven’t heard a word of it.” Moments like this are the heart of the success of this film as the viewer knows already where the story’s going, but the band and filmmaker had no idea. We know it’s all going to fall apart – it’s just a matter of time. That said, I am Trying to Break Your Heart taken as a whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. There are no exquisite epiphanies, no shocking revelations, no high drama (even the discreetly acrimonious departure of Jay Bennett is downright tame and civil by rock and roll standards) – and there is no new documentary innovation present – simply a moment captured and a story told, albeit one fans already know – but director Jones, and especially editor Erin Nordstrom, creating more “moving pictures” than motion picture. Every frame, a warmly grainy, comfortable black and white, evokes a gray Chicago morning, the weary optimism of frontman Jeff Tweedy, and the unassuming, austere, yet inconspicuous intricacy of Wilco’s music. --Mark Nichols for Documentary Films .Net

Release Date: 2003

Director: Jones, Same

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