Patti Smith Electric Poet

At the age of 20 Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock poetry and genre She has become a living legend without ever leaving the sidelines A poet actress and musician Also militant An artist with a thousand lives now 74 years old The documentary follows the course of Patti Smiths life Childhood first and the artist who says I wanted to be someone special I felt distant Not just from other children I felt far from the whole world I spent my childhood in think I was an alien Little Patti grew up in rural New Jersey and received a religious education from her Jehovahs Witness mother But Patti Smith leaves the movement which does not suit her artistic inclinations