Anger Me
- Director: Elio Gelmini
- Writer: Elio Gelmini; Varlo Vitali
- Producer: Elio Gelmini; Varlo Vitali
CGiii Comment
First and foremost...this is not a documentary, it's an interview.
Anger has been placed in front of an excessively busy blue screen and drowned out by the music.
To appreciate Anger, you have to appreciate the avant-garde - and, there are those who say that anyone can do the avant...that may be true...but, only a few stick to it for their entire life's work...Anger has done so.
Gelmini has squandered a great opportunity...Anger does come across as a thoroughly polite and decent chap - he has met and worked with some exceptional people...Cocteau, Langlois...
The one good thing that does come out of this is...you will watch and re-appraise Anger's work with a little more kindness.
He certainly deserves a film about himself...a film that does justice to the man and his work. Sadly, this is not it.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Biography of the late author/actor/filmmaker Kenneth Anger, covering his early life as a child actor up through his career as an author ("Hollywood Babylon") and avant-garde filmmaker (Scorpio Rising (1964), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)). Included are interviews with friends and colleagues and archival footage of Anger, as well as clips from some of his films.
Cast & Characters
Kenneth Anger as Himself;
Jonas Mekas as Himself