
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on local Florida television in 1974.... (Full plot summary below)
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Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on local Florida television in 1974.
Leave your thoughts about Kate Plays Christine.
| MetroMatt PriggeIt's a movie at war with itself, and rightly so, because any attempt it makes to reimagine Christine Chubbuck's life is, on some level, ethically wrong. |
| The SkinnyJosh Slater-WilliamsA thoroughly disturbing cinematic experience: non-fiction filmmaking by way of psychological thriller. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirI would simultaneously argue that Sheil and Greene go off the rails several times during Kate Plays Christine, most notably in their overly artful and self-conscious attempt to re-enact the shooting but also that they get viewers closer to the real Christine Chubbuck than I would have thought possible. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe new movie by Robert Greene is a tour de force in the blending and bending of genres. |
| NonficsChristopher CampbellPeople will be talking about how it blurs the line between narrative and nonfiction, but the more remarkable thing it does is smooth over the lines of documentary form. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenIt movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude. |
| The Film StageDaniel SchindelAs an exploration of identity as it is felt, projected, and interpreted, this is masterful. |
| Film ExperienceGlenn DunksIt's one of the year's greatest achievements. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdThere’s an emotional dimension to Kate Plays Christine—an empathy linking an actor to the human headline she’s dressing up as—that’s nearly abstracted into oblivion by the film’s neurotic self-examination. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThe process of transformation is the story, and the story truly belongs to the artist. |