
Cinema's prodigal daughter Jennifer Lynch braves the unmapped territory of Bollywood-Hollywood movie making, where chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization.... (Full plot summary below)
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Cinema's prodigal daughter Jennifer Lynch braves the unmapped territory of Bollywood-Hollywood movie making, where chaos is the process and filmmaking doubles as a crash course in acceptance and self-realization.
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| Hollywood ReporterMegan LehmannAn absorbing documentary chronicling the derailment of an ambitious, Bollywood-style filmmaking effort. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneCynthia DickisonMostly serves as an overwrought "woe-is-me" tale about a director in over her head. |
| User ReviewHayden GNaked, honest, scary, stressful and funny, this is a fantastic portrait of an artist under fire and at the end of her rope. Truly inspiring. |
| User ReviewKristal CI'm a huge Jennifer Lynch fan and she makes for a super interesting subject but the film as a whole felt messy and surface-y. I would have liked a little more context about how she got the job of directing a Bollywood movie - especially when the producer didn't seem to trust her. It would have also been interesting to expound on the implied misogyny that exists in India. There were threads there, but in general there just wasn't a very strong point of view. |