A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just following him around, filming, but soon he begrudgingly accepts her presence, then gets attached to the attention.
Acting
D'Onofrio's simmering rage and neediness, often in the same breath.
Direction
Lindsay-Hogg blurs who's using whom until it collapses entirely.
Editing
Raw footage aesthetic that questions what's 'real' and what's staged.
Director
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hope Davis's character is literally credited as 'Camera,' not a name — a choice so pretentious it circles back to brilliant.
Made two years before The Blair Witch Project, this predicted our entire reality-TV, found-footage, true-crime documentary obsession — and warned us.
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