Crazy Love (2007 film)

Crazy Love is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. The screenplay by Klores, who also wrote Boys of 2nd Street Park explores the troubled relationship between New York City attorney Burt Pugach and his tenyearsyounger girlfriend Linda Riss, who was blinded and permanently scarred when thugs hired by Pugach threw lye in her face.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo and added, Crazy Love takes a mildly hyperventilated approach to its subject theres a hint of tabloid sensationalism, a splash of kitsch sentimentalism. It moves fast, if predictably so, with the usual mashup of talkinghead testimonials, faded family photographs, blurred home movies and generic stock footage meant to evoke specific times and places. An opening quotation from Jacques Lacan makes you think youre headed for deep waters, when all thats in store is a frolic in the shallows. The overall vibe is morbidly entertaining, though something of a downer, partly because its unclear if Mr. and Mrs. Pugach know that they are such sick puppies, partly because its unclear if Mr. Klores cares that they are ... It belongs to that class of documentaries that might be called the family freak show. But it also belongs to the more familiar category of the misery documentary, those nonfiction works that poke into the ghastliness of other peoples lives like a finger rummaging inside a wound ... it also raises more questions than it answers, including the moral responsibility a documentary filmmaker assumes when his subjects seem so eager to exploit themselves.In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers awarded the filmout of a possible four stars and commented, For those who dont believe that truth trumps fiction for whackedout depravity, mark this shockingly fierce and funny spellbinder as Exhibit A. ........

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