Bring the lights down, and it's just like a [live] performance. I promise you.

Everyone plays out of their skin but Byrne is the inspired star, hitting himself in the face, doing laps of the stage and reappearing for Girlfriend Is Better in his famous giant suit.

The movie is the finest imaginable version of the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour. The concert’s physical staging elements, introduced in pieces and segments, with elegant and wryly suggestive words, create an aura of pristine unease.

Despite the wild eyes and non sequiturs, Byrne’s vision is accessible and charismatic. It’s incredibly moving that someone so clearly awkward and uncomfortable can be himself and make money from it