Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police.

Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police is a little gem of a documentary directed by Andy Grieve and Lauren Lazin. It's told from the perspective of The Police's Andy Summers and it does it's best to give you background on the one member of the group that flew under the radar. It's a fun yet angst filled enjoyable ride back through time and because of that I give Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police three buckets of Killer Korn.












Based on his memoir entitled One Train Later, Can't Stand Losing You centers around Andy Summers and his life before, during, and after The Police. It touches on all the things you never really cared to know about the one member of the group that seemed overshadowed by Sting and Stewart Copeland and it offers up just a nod to why that iconic group broke up. I think this film is for those fans who loved the music and the die hard Andy Summers fans who wanted to know what happened to the musician/photographer.

This film follows Andy from birth to the end of The Police reunion tour that took the world by storm back in 2007/08. It touched on the artist's struggles trying to make it as a musician living in L.A. while having no prospects and no direction. He get's married, flies back to England with his wife and becomes a session player on Mike Oldfield's seminal hit Tubular Bells. Those sessions are where he meets Sting and Stewart who both in bands of their own at the time. One thing leads to another and The Police are born and just when his daughter is born, Andy is on the road for eight months out of the calendar year.

I don't know who really cared about the life and times of Andy Summers outside of those closest to him, family and friends but the music is a time warp. It will bring you back to a time when you first heard Roxanne and Can't Stand Losing You. The movie creates more questions than it answers for sure but the music makes that easier to swallow. If you are a fan of The Police then I highly recommend seeing this film. If you aren't then I suggest you skip Can't Stand Losing You (though that does make me wonder about your taste in music but whatever) and I'll see you at the theater.