White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights

This documentary follow Jack and Meg White as they tour Canada throwing in an impromptu show at every location.  The performances as always are fascinating and shot on 16mm film stock it has a beautiful grainy appearance appropriate to its subjects.  However, the big question is how much of this is actually documentary.  Jack White enjoys preaching the chaos theory but some of it has to be taken with a grain of salt.  Even the fact that during his and Meg's interview portions there is a man lying on a bed in the background of set surely preconceived by none other than Jack himself.  They talk about the impromptu performances on their tour claiming that they just show up and figure out where would be fun to play a couple of hours before.  In reality this is just not possible with public performance licenses being required for such gigs and the staff to run crowd control, not to mention sourcing electricity for amplifiers and microphones.  Additionally there is talk of how they never have a set list and don't know what they're going to do until it happens on stage.  They may not write it down but surely they will have some pre conceived notion especially when we see bagpipers on stage part way through a show, again another thing which has no choice but to be planned.  Additionally there is Jack mentioning how him and Meg are brother and sister when in fact they are not, they were simply once married.  To add to the deceit of this three people are cited as 'Jack and Meg's distant cousin' and his title in the credits is Jack White III which by this point you just don't know anymore.  Regardless of how reliable a source Jack himself is there is also the pre meditated shots and scenarios such as Jack and Meg standing posed in front of aeroplanes.  This may be a masterful piece of filmmaking but whether or not it is a documentary is highly questionable.