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France, Portugal, United States · 2013
1h 10m
Director Gabe Klinger
Starring Richard Linklater, James Benning, Sandra Adair
Genre Documentary
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Director Gabe Klinger documents the unique friendship of filmmakers James Benning and Richard Linklater over the course of a few days in Texas as they present Benning’s films at the Austin Film Society, play baseball at Linklater’s home, visit old shooting locations, and talk about their respective filmmaking trajectories over long meals and hikes.
Village Voice by Amy Nicholson
It's less interesting watching them do what they both feel they have to do -- talk about their craft -- especially as both give off the prickly energy of artists who would rather create than explain. They're more comfortable asking one another questions, even though the answers are shrugged off humbly.
It’s a perfectly pleasant cinema-studies seminar, but one that stops just short of teaching its students anything truly insightful.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The graceful flow avoids the spoon-feeding of pocket biographies, and even if the material can feel lean at times, Mr. Klinger shepherds along a valuable encounter with a sense of easy, generally uncanned observation.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Klinger is clearly aiming at a hardcore of filmmakers and cinema students, but even that niche audience will only glean incomplete insights into the methods and motivations of his subjects.
Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane
Between their wildly different bodies of work, a shared appeal emerges: to stop, look, listen, and consider not just what's in front of you, but also where it came from and where it might be going.
Friendship. Love. Murder.
Disorders are a sad reality