BBCNEWS The Film Review June 4, 2024 02:52:00
I'm afraid — to me, although you're right, it's a love story as well as telling factual issues, am i seeing this too journalistically? to me, it is still a documentary and i wanted the script written in a slightly more documentary style, a few harder facts, and a tougher narration, i'm afraid. it felt, to me, weirdly kind of emotionally overruled. i thought that what it was trying to do was get towards that werner herzog "ecstatic truth" kind of narration that very few people, other than werner herzog, can get away with. that said, their story is remarkable. i mean, some of the footage is ab...