The venerable documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who’s 93 years old and still going strong, is known for his sprawling, compassionate and hard-hitting works chronicling American institutions for more than half a century. Films like Welfare, High School, Public Housing, Law and Order, Domestic Violence and Belfast, Maine captured the inner workings of various public bodies, whether schools, offices, communities or entire cities, and the people keeping them afloat. Often clocking in at three hours or more, his movies are loaded with the bureaucratic details and the minutiae of everyday life, painting an ever-evolving portrait of America in all its complex, paradoxical glory.
Starting in the 1990s, Wiseman began making films in France, which is now his adopted home. But rather than focusing on the country’s many public bureaucracies, which can be more intimidating and Kafkaesque than those in the U.S., he’s chosen to document a number of its famed cultural institutions,...
Starting in the 1990s, Wiseman began making films in France, which is now his adopted home. But rather than focusing on the country’s many public bureaucracies, which can be more intimidating and Kafkaesque than those in the U.S., he’s chosen to document a number of its famed cultural institutions,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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