Oldboy spent years cooped up in an apartment prison stewing over the bloody vengeance he had in store for his foes. Given a camcorder, he (and the local octopuses) may just have had a mellower time taking a leaf out The Wolfpack’s book and recreating a few of his favourite movies instead. The documentary's six New York brothers are the subject of a quirky new true-life tale, the trailer for which has just landed. Click below to get a flavour of the film.
Nothing whatsoever to do with Das Boot, The Wolfpack are the offspring of a man whose idea of parenting crossed over to a worrying degree with other people’s concept of incarceration. The six siblings - Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna, Jagadesh and sister Visnu - were mostly confined to their Lower East Side apartment by their father and homeschooled by their mother. Aside from the odd, very rare outing, their only real conduit to the outside world came through the movies they loving recreated inside their four walls.
It was newbie filmmaker Crystal Moselle who spotted the Reservoir Dog-clad teens on First Avenue in Manhattan in 2010 and decided to add another camera to the mix. The result is a fascinating doc celebrating the power of movies that you can catch on August 21.