- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2009
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Two rival Medieval shows vie for supremacy in the world of Renaissance Faires.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Coming-of-age | Compassion | Emotional repression | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal | Personal change | Political | Political Correctness |
Self-belief |Self-expression | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White guilt - Similar to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Oddly Original
Movie about the process of acting, itself, in that the various performers portray the differing levels of commitment to their roles that one would expect from historical re-enactors in real life.
The ever-petite Christina RICCI is her usual excellent self and perfectly complements the highly-tall and apparently-gormless Owen BENJAMIN.
BENJAMIN is, in fact, unhilariously-hilarious as he wanders around this movie acting like he is amazed that anyone would ask him to appear in a movie at all. It is as if his first impressions of being in a movie are being recorded for no good reason - other than posterity; as if he were watching the other performers from a distance rather than directly interacting with them - as would be the case in a more conventional movie.
Apart from the fact that there is no explanation as to why any Whites would ever choose to dress up as other people and start living an alternate reality (outside the acting field), this film is kind of brilliant - in an Adventures of Power sort of way.
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