Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus is a documentary by Mexican filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes that answers a question many music lovers may have asked at some point in their lives: who sang the iconic track Goodbye Horses (immortalized by an iconic sequence in The Silence of the Lambs) and what happened to the artist? The documentary gives a voice to Q Lazzarus to tell her own story, why she never achieved the success that the legendary status of her song promised, and why she disappeared for so long. While its linear structure and spontaneous direction make the experience somewhat unpolished with an irregular pace, the documentary is endlessly fascinating because its protagonist's story is. A must-watch for anyone wanting to know about a musical star who shone brightly but burned out too soon, or for anyone wanting to know why it happened that way.