"It's about a bunch of articulate, essentially shy people who...find themselves in the strange, insane, seductive world of end-of-the century celebrity, with thousands of cameras and microphones constantly siphoning little bits off them."

So says director Grant Gee of his Radiohead tour documentary, Meeting People is Easy. He forgot to mention that it's unusually solemn for a rockumentary, but then it's hard to imagine a Radiohead profile being anything else.

With the release of their 1997 album, OK Computer, the band suddenly found itself at the center of a media frenzy. Hailed as a modern masterpiece, their tour in support of it was beset on all sides by journalists, hangers-on, and crazed fans. Some rock stars might have reveled in the attention, but Radiohead was perplexed by it, and more than a little uncomfortable.

Meeting People is Easy follows the band around the world as they shuttle wearily from town to town, muddle their way through countless awkward interviews and junkets, and sometimes, relievedly, get to play their music. It's a harrying but sympathetic view of the life of the performer, one archly intended to deglamorize the whole affair. Meeting people, it turns out, is not so easy after all.