There's a good film noir to be made from this morass of human foibles, but British documentarian Paul Yule has the advantage of nonfictional context.
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01/19/07
The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 9 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Synopsis: This fascinating documentary from director Paul Yule tells the intriguing story of photographer O. Winston Link, who was known for his lovely black-and-white pictures of trains--though friends say he had a dark, depressive, and reclusive side. When, at the age of 73, he married the younger... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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Adultery, abuse, and astronomical art world prices are packaged with creepy background music and cliched close-ups of court records.
10/27/06
Top Critic
An essay on the difficulty of determining 'truth' and the ultimate unknowability of people.
10/26/06
... Yule's docu sheds light neither on the convoluted codependency of marriage nor upon the commodification of art.
08/02/06
Top Critic
Yule's insightful new movie details the disintegration of a marriage that was hunky-dory when he met the 75-year-old Winston and his new 50-year-old wife and partner, Conchita, in 1990.
07/28/06
It's sort of like how two people can look at the same photograph, and one can see a record of a place and time, while another can see art.
07/27/06
Paul Yule's strong documentary is teasingly ambiguous, inviting audience members to debate Conchita's guilt and supplying plenty of points for both sides.
07/26/06
Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield.
07/26/06
Paul Yule's documentary wades through the seamy mess surrounding the estate of the Brooklyn-born photographer O. Winston Link, who died in 2001.
07/25/06
Top Critic
[Yule] reveals a struggle far more complicated, suggesting that the manic entanglement of human relationships can't always conform to the winner-loser narratives that the lawyer-driven court system demands.
07/25/06
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