And, after growing up, started a Disney club at school so he could have friends. He created his own animated story to express his emotions. Owen used the end credits of the films to learn to read. Disney has always been a magical force in childrens' lives, but for this family, they became a lifeline: the Suskinds began to communicate with Owen through Disney films, puppets and drawings. But then they discovered something remarkable: Owen had learned all of the Disney movies they owned on VHS off by heart. Diagnosed with autism, it was "like he'd been kidnapped", say his parents. When Owen Suskind was three years old, he suddenly stopped talking. Sundance London film review: Life, Animated The ensuing middle-class mid-life crisis, as each relationship finds itself under fresh scrutiny, is far from revelatory, but Clea DuVall's writing/directing debut is performed by such a good cast that it's hard not to caught up in the mild scandals and milder affairs. Three couples get together to tell a fourth couple that they should get a divorce in this very familiar indie dramedy. Sundance London film review: The InterventionĬast: Melanie Lynskey, Clea DuVall, Cobie Smulders "It's the most exciting thing to get a response to a book I never meant to write," she observes. Whether you believe what she says is another matter entirely, but you'll be hooked on every word. It's perhaps revealing that she compares her plight halfway through to The Prince and the Pauper, rather than any real life incident, but Feuerzeig's film resists the urge to psychoanalyse its subject, letting her speak for herself. What emerges is a sensitive study of stories and storytellers - a look at someone who claims that all she wanted was to be a normal human being. And, sure enough, she's a gifted presenter, given the main stage to narrate events without interruption from her no doubt many detractors. That's thanks to Albert herself, who doesn't shy away from offering her take on events throughout. By the time her second novel is turned into a film that debuts at Cannes, we're shocked but somehow unsurprised.
Roping in her sister, Savannah, to play LeRoy in public - and even Savannah's musician boyfriend to support the act, Laura's little white lie spirals into a web of lies and celebrated song lyrics.ĭirector Jeff Feuerzeig picks apart the myth with gripping precision, walking us step by step to the moment of discovery. What started out as a pen name soon took on a life of his own, as JT was hailed by stars such as Winona Ryder and Bono - despite the fact that his initials actually stood for "Jeremiah Terminator".
He also didn't exist: he was the creation of Laura Albert, a mother from Brooklyn. He was young, talented, a prostitute turned artist turned celebrity. Truth is stranger than fiction, Mark Twain once said - but what about when truth is fiction? In the 1990s, that was exactly the case, when a talented author, JT LeRoy, became an overnight sensation. Sundance London film review: Author: The JT LeRoy Story Saying things like "Hey, have you seen Taika Waititi's new movie?", "It's so cool that Taika Waititi is directing the next Thor film!" and "What do you mean you mean you haven't seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople?" Learn the name Taika Waititi now, because you'll be using it a lot in the coming years. Now Showing: The 2016 London Film Festival.Ĭast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata Plus, more of what I'm writing elsewhere and what I'm enjoying reading on other sites. You'll get the same film reviews, blog posts and festival coverage, but more of it and in shorter chunks.
With running taking up more and more of my time, this poor old blog keeps getting neglected - so, it's been given a fresh lick of paint and rebooted over at .uk.
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