Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, Luke Korem's film looks at the Euro-R&B duo, their rise to Grammy-winning fame and their descent into lip-synching ignominy.
They — Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus — were the lip-synching scofflaws, convicted in the court of public opinion of fraud against a generation of FM Top 40 radio listeners robbed of our precious sense that music and
its artistic authorship were directly linked. The punishment? Permanent professional ostracism and punchline status — though when Pilatus died of an accidental drug overdose in 1998, the reality became even more punitive.
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