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MARWENCOL

Jeff Malmberg USA, 2010
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It models how a film can get close to its subject through simple but eloquent choices around camera, lighting, and editing, angles from which documentaries are too rarely reviewed by content-focused critics and audiences, and options that sometimes fly out the window when big studios subsidize the possibility of more grandiose approaches.
Januar 5, 2019
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Marwencol, by Jeff Malmberg is a striking, unusual documentary about Mark Hogancamp, the victim of a brutal attack who recovers by using dolls and action figures to create a fantasy World War II version of his life. Hogancamp's world is a highly immersive work of art, fashioned after the mythology of World War II as found in countless war movies.
November 11, 2015
It's all inherently fascinating, and Malmberg neither gawks nor builds up a condescending outsider-artist mythology around his subject, making Marwencol not just a curio-doc with an above-average hook, but an insightful perspective on the uses and limits of fantasy.
November 4, 2015
Cinema Guild
Marwencol doesn't try to sell or dazzle with an exhibitionism that keeps us at a distance... Jeff Malmberg made this film distinctive through an odd intersection of two fields that often combat each other – directing and editing. The editor is the first real audience member to see a film, and he has to pull it from the realm of the abstract into something that makes a viewer respond.
April 12, 2011