Synopsis
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Harry Dean StantonSelf
- Sophie HuberSelf (voice)
- Wim WendersSelf
- David LynchSelf
- Miljenko GotovacSelf
- Jamie JamesSelf
- Sam ShepardSelf
- Debbie HarrySelf
- Logan SparksSelf
- MouseSelf
Recommandations
- 90
Village Voice
A film that's in perfect sync with its subject. - 90
The New York Times
Matching her subject’s lackadaisical rhythms, Ms. Huber has shaped an unusually poetic biopic. - 89
Austin Chronicle
Alternating between color footage and the genius interplay of startlingly lovely sequences of Stanton singing and playing harmonica in granular black-and-white, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction perfectly captures the essence of the man. - 88
RogerEbert.com
Harry Dean Stanton: Party Fiction takes a dreamy and philosophical approach, reflecting the personality of the man who is its subject. - 80
Los Angeles Times
At the film's heart is a fitful conversation that unfolds like a string of koans, epigrams, jokes and silences. - 70
The Dissolve
It’s a little frustrating at first to realize that Huber isn’t going to get much explanation of anything from Stanton. But she ends up making a virtue of the actor’s Zen calm. - 67
The Playlist
An enigmatic and perhaps occasionally overly deferential documentary about one of the all-time great character actors, Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, is slow out of the gate, but gently, ever so gently, builds to a thoughtful portrait of a thoughtful man. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
It’s a truism, reinforced here, that actors often are the last to comprehend how they do what they do. No matter. What they give us is all that counts.
