It’s basically a high-caliber book-on-tape augmented with actual (as opposed to horror-movie fake) found footage — a missing link between full-on dramatization and simply reading the book while imagining visuals.
The doc delivers enough arresting Neapolitan moments that many viewers will consider tracking down the source material — still in print, nearly four decades after Lewis published it in 1978.
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Slant MagazineDerek Smith
Slant MagazineDerek Smith
It’s far too scattershot, bouncing from one topic to the next with the carelessness of someone flipping through a book and reading from a random page.