with its awkward bravado, earnest moralizing, black box costumes, and Errol Flynn’s gooey charm, it comes off like a highly elaborate school play. It didn’t take long for its hooligan energy to win me over. A great Saturday morning put-on!
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The Lovers of Montparnasse 1958
struggling artist refuses to adapt to the demands of Western capitalist society. He allows other people to provide for him, wallows in his vices, and hurts the people who love him. He dies, and his 20-year-old girlfriend takes her own life soon after. It’s not a tragedy — it’s hypocrisy, and a trope that’s starting to bore me. Don’t be fooled, there’s enough time in a day to make art and earn an honest living.
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Caido 2009
A rare and almost-lost film, only available to the public thanks to a personal friend who resurrected it by following a trail of breadcrumbs comprising a series of events that are almost stranger than fiction. The (true) story of why this film still exists begins with 2am response to a Kijiji classified for a used bicycle by Montreal-based book-publishing giant Michel Brûlé, who in 2008 invested his fortune into self-funding (and writing, and directing, and starring in) this train wreck…
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