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Burt's Buzz

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Canada · 2014
1h 28m
Director Jody Shapiro
Starring Burt Shavitz
Genre Documentary

BURT'S BUZZ is an in-depth and personal look at the life of Burt Shavitz, known to millions around the world as the "Burt" of the Burt’s Bees natural product brand. The documentary explores what it means to be marketed as an icon, and how that life differs from the one of the man behind the logo.

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Village Voice by Abby Garnett

Shapiro seems far more invested than his subject in telling the story, which sometimes makes the film feel a bit underhanded.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Stamets

Shapiro fails to sell Shavitz as the “wise and wry, ornery and opinionated” figure the press notes promise. No opinion, wise or otherwise, is uttered by this rustic quasi-eccentric, let alone a green ethos.

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The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger

The film, by Jody Shapiro, seems so hagiographic that when it finally gets around to its 20 minutes’ worth of interesting stuff, you’re not sure whether to trust it.

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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

In engaging but not always satisfying fashion, Jody Shapiro's film reveals the man behind the logo to be a taciturn, plain-living refugee from city life and an unlikely globe-trotting corporate spokesman.

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