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"Rough-edged, beautifully shot, sometimes idyllic and pitiless
in the end, it's a feature-length exercise in narrative chain-yanking,
a genre experiment that gums up truth and fiction without sacrificing
the pleasures of story... Tramping through the forest is fun,
especially with Hyrns, who appeared in the doc Johnny Berlin
last year and never appears to be acting, but Karpovsky is after
bigger game. Soon, 'Woodpecker' seems to become one of those
invasive documentaries about delusional American weirdos, or
a parody of the same, and then it becomes something richer and
stranger still. By the end, this sad, savvy film has demonstrated
how easily movies can trick us -- but also how fun it is to
let them. "
Alan Scherstuhl, THE PITCH, KANSAS CITY |
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