Film Friday: “Forgetting Al Pacino” / Torontoist

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Film Friday: “Forgetting Al Pacino” / Torontoist

“We were interested to see Ben X as a result of its award-winning status and heavy use of MMORPG Archlord as part of the story, but despite not having any sort of preconceptions we were still sorely disappointed. It’s a mess of a film in form (mixing up first-person narrative with TV-style interviews) that tried to tell a foolish, crowd-pleasing story about a bullied kid with Autism moving forward with his life. Except you’d have to be pretty unobservant to not note that the conclusion undoes any goodwill by implying that he could only move on by going completely insane.

It will make you feel weird, so we suggest you skip it.”

Hot Docs is this week, and my coverage started yesterday. I’ll post more covereage here after it’s all over and done with, most probably.

April 18th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist

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