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I Touched All Your Stuff

I Touched All Your Stuff (A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos)

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  • Brazil
  • 2015
  • · 92m

Directors Matias Mariani, Maira Buhler
Cast Christopher Kirk
Genre Adventure, Crime, Documentary

This documentary follows Christopher Kirk, an American who moved to Colombia to chase Pablo Escobar's hippos. There, he met and became fascinated with a Japanese-Colombian woman with a sketchy past. What follows is a story stranger than fiction, eventually culminating in Kirk's imprisonment in Brazil for drug trafficking.

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88

Slant Magazine by Wes Greene

A documentary whatsit acutely aware of the inherent performance people put into social discourse to maintain appearances.

70

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

What emerges in the end actually is surprisingly consistent and coherent, if you pay close attention to the most important passages of Kirk’s self-serving narrative and steer through all the denials and reversals and irrelevant tangents.

70

Village Voice by Serena Donadoni

Bühler and Mariani make their process part of the narrative, deconstructing the documentary form while delving into Kirk's copious digital life.

63

RogerEbert.com

I Touched All Your Stuff is an attempt to make us feel that sting of disappointment. In a way, it's effective. The movie is disappointing.

63

RogerEbert.com by Mark Dujsik

I Touched All Your Stuff is an attempt to make us feel that sting of disappointment. In a way, it's effective. The movie is disappointing.

50

Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai

It's too bad that Bühler and Mariani take Kirk's tall tale at face value instead of doing their own investigative work and tracking down other characters for interviews.

40

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

The filmmakers pop their story’s bubble in a confusing finish, but it all ends up feeling like a mystery novel that simply never revealed the key clues.