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Sunday 4 March 2018

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

A standard documentary that strives to shed light on Dir. Stanley Kubrick by interviewing actors, collaborators, fellow directors, and family members.
I'm not going to go as far as to call it a cheap exposé, because it does at least try to avoid going down that route, but considering that Kubrick valued his privacy and, even to the detriment of his own public image, preferred to let his art works (his films) speak for themselves, then from a conceptual point of view A Life in Pictures is the antithesis of its subject's beliefs. If it really wanted to respect the filmmaker it would never have been made to begin with; I doubt it would've been if Stanley had still been alive at the time. My advice would be to do yourself a favour and rewatch his best films instead.

2½ East London palm trees out of 5

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