Saw this film in Wroclaw Poland in October and it started with Cory, one of the lead characters looking directly into the camera and giving a real strange monologue about his life. Much of the film seems to deal with Cory's sexuality in a documentary kinda way. The other protagonists are an immigrant who is selling sex to make money to get back to Japan, and Cory's homophobic brother, a former military guy who's moved back to town after the war. Many nods to french new wave filmmakers, also the director uses things from actors' real lives, so we are never sure if we are watching constructed reality or director's thoughts or something different all together.
In Q and A he said that much of film was written around the actors experience, so there was a mixture of documentary and fiction overall. I found the doc stuff less interesting, still, the film has a wholly original texture, and that cannot be faked. Definitely not for everyone though.
In Q and A he said that much of film was written around the actors experience, so there was a mixture of documentary and fiction overall. I found the doc stuff less interesting, still, the film has a wholly original texture, and that cannot be faked. Definitely not for everyone though.