
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.... (Full plot summary below)
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From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.
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| MUBIDavid Cairns[Steven] Soderbergh has returned to fashion a documentary/tribute that's loving, moving and funny. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawit's as painful to listen to and watch as it is astonishing that I should feel this kind of connection to someone I never met, and never will. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickallows Gray to speak of his life and its significance entirely in his own words without any intrusive talking heads or academic pontification |
| OregonianShawn LevyAn absorbing, entertaining, amusing and wrenching film. |
| Washington PostDan KoisSpalding Gray himself has the last word on his life, something this exacting storyteller would surely have demanded. |
| Seattle TimesMisha BersonThis is not a standard bio-documentary. It is the artist giving us a guided tour of himself, through a mosaic of clips from his shows and TV interviews, craftily assembled by Soderbergh. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordWhat the director does best is move back and forth between funny stage anecdotes...to deadly serious discussion of the stories's underpinnings... |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinIt does justice to a subject who made his life and death works of art. |
| Village VoiceKarina LongworthSeen as his final monologue, the film is both an invaluable portfolio of his talent, and a tribute rendered in the style of its subject. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyThink of the film as Gray's final monologue. |