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WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY JONATHAN CAOUETTE
USA, 2004
88 MINS.
WELLSPRING FILMS
“ONE OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST INTERESTING MOVIES OF
THE YEAR.
Demands to be described in terms not ordinarily applied to movies
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as a memoir, as a diary, as a private, poetic record of emerging consciousness.
NOBODY HAS EVER MADE A MOVIE LIKE IT.”
–
A.O. Scott, New York Times.
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A.O. Scott's review in the New York Times
A SELF-PORTRAIT LIKE NONE YOU’VE EVER SEEN. Since age 11, filmmaker Jonathan Caouette has been collecting a wealth of personal materials (snapshots, home movie footage, video diaries, snippets of ’80s pop culture, answering machine messages, Hollywood films) to recreate the chronology of his raw, chaotic and troubled life with his single mother. Gus Van Sant (whose films influenced Caouette) and John Cameron Mitchell (author of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch) became executive producers; the film went on to tremendous acclaim at both the Sundance and Cannes festivals. TARNATION is a kaleidoscopic fever dream, a singular story of growing up in America: touching, funny, disturbing and deeply moving.
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