Ron and Russell Mael, the Californian brothers who have been making bonkers art-pop as Sparks for more than 50 years, are musicians in love with the scale and glamour of film. Edgar Wright, the British director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver, is a film-maker in love with the immediacy and attitude of pop music. How splendid, then, that Wright has made a documentary about the Maels.
Directing The Sparks Brothers was his “destiny”, he says via Zoom from his office in Soho, central London. Wright, 47, has been a fan of Sparks since he was five and saw them doing their celestial disco extravaganza The Number One Song in Heaven on Top of the Pops in 1979. Pretty,
