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...based on an actual collaboration between Smith and Conrad when the latter was a young artist starting out in New York City.A self-confessed introvert who majored in mathematics as an undergraduate, Conrad explained that he wanted to emphasize his relationship with Smith, who helped draw out the filmmaker??s budding artistic vision. “I was coming out of this cocoon of having been a math nerd into a scene where I found myself actually standing in front of a vase of flowers in a dress with Jack ripping it down my back...
...Huck.” Despite the advantage of returning to known terrain, Smiley stumbles, and her attempt to translate Hollywood to the page is as artificial as her political protest. As the war in Iraq is just beginning to start, Max and Elena take refuge in the filmmaker??s outdated estate—their escape from modernity and its discontents. But they slowly realize that what they need to escape from is each other. Max’s glamorous ex-wife arrives, along with their daughter, and a menagerie of others best kept apart, not to mention...
...film is told almost entirely through testimonials, featuring interviews with everyone from a California blue-collar worker who saw his pension fund raided to former Enron VPs. The journalistic bent of the film is apparent in the filmmaker??s acquisition of internal memos, audio recordings and video footage that stand out as particularly worthwhile...
...keeps the camera tightly focused on her subjects as they undergo healing therapy. The filmmaker??s keen attention to the powers of touch give the film a gentle sense of feminine consolation...
...next day, a Republican media representative attempted to assuage the notoriously demanding press, assuring journalists in the affected section that the “disingenuous filmmaker?? would not be making an encore performance at the convention. (Free beer would have helped...