Surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold hustler, a righteous preacher, and a wolf pack of kids, the sweet, yet unstable, strange singer with God-given talents avoids the recording studio, driven by his own self-discovery.

Eschewing traditional storytelling for a kind of visual stream of consciousness, this second feature by Tim Sutton is a lyrical portrait of the titular city’s blues scene. Drawing comparison to the work of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Green, Memphis is a spiritually haunting study in artifice.