Part indie rock biopic, part absurdist jukebox-style stage musical, Alex Ross Perry’s kaleidoscopic portrait of the 1990s band Pavement is no ordinary music doc.

And yet the film is droll but never snotty, richly inventive, and so smartly executed that reality blurs.

It is a palimpsest of approaches: four concepts placed on top of each other, but none can be seen clearly. For me, Perry’s masterpiece is still his 2015 drama Listen Up Philip. But this film might well provide something for the Pavement fanbase.

Alex Ross Perry utterly nails an unconventional approach that sits perfectly with the band’s aesthetic - and in particular, truculent contrarian (and sometimes savage) frontman Stephen Malkmus. Pavements layers fact and fiction wonderfully.