This geographic intimacy is captured vividly by cinematographer Hélène Louvart, who also shot «The Wonders» and documentaries «Pina» and «The Beaches of Agnès,» (among others; whether capturing a boardwalk fireworks show or the thick clouds of a vape bar, «Beach Rats» has an experiential,
almost docudrama aesthetic whose lived - in authenticity is in keeping with that of the film as a whole.
There's
an almost docudrama - like feeling to proceedings, although Reichardt avoids the tropes of that genre — the photography (again by «Meek's Cutoff» DoP Christopher Blauvelt) is carefully composed, the editing steady and measured.
At Venice, Oli found that the film kicks off with «
an almost docudrama - like feeling to proceedings,» before a second half that «shifts effortlessly into a portrait of guilt.»
Not exact matches
Performance Jack Black, Bernie In Richard Linklater's hilarious fact - based
docudrama, Jack Black plays an accomplished mortician so beloved by the citizens of a Texas small town that nobody seems to want to admit he's
almost certainly guilty of murdering a hateful, extraordinarily rich old woman (Shirley MacLaine) who monopolizes his time and energy — or, for that matter, concede that he's gay.