Coming Apart (film)
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| Directed by | Milton Moses Ginsberg |
| Written by | Milton Moses Ginsberg |
| Starring | Rip Torn Sally Kirkland |
Release date | 1969 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Coming Apart is a 1969 film written and directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg, and starring Rip Torn and Sally Kirkland.
Torn plays a mentally disturbed psychologist who secretly films his sexual encounters with women. Ginsberg filmed the entire movie with one static camera setup, in a manner simulating a non-constructed "fake documentary" style, influenced by Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary.[1]
Critical reception was mixed. Life reviewer Richard Schickel praised Torn's performance, Ginsberg's inventive use of camera and sound, and the "illuminating" portrayal of a schizophrenic breakdown.[2] Critic Andrew Sarris gave it a less favorable review, however, and the film was a commercial failure.
The film has since attained a cult following among critics and filmmakers.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Horwath, Alexander. (2004) "A Walking Contradiction (Partly True and Partly Fiction)" The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press ISBN 90-5356-493-4
- ^ Schickel, Richard. "Cracking Up On Camera" Life, October 17, 1969
- ^ Smith, Dinitia. "After 'Coming Apart,' a Life Did Just That (1978). The New York Times, September 10, 1998
- ^ Kawin, Bruce. “Coming Apart: The Mind as Camera.” Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and first-person film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
External links
- Coming Apart at IMDb
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