Werner Herzog's Family Romance, LLC is having a free virtual preview on Mubi in many countries on July 3, 2020. Following this preview, it will be showing exclusively on Mubi in the many countries in the series Luminaries.The curious staging of Werner Herzog’s Family Romance, LLC., can be best understood through an event that occurred in November of 2018, when Japanese public broadcasting station Nhk aired a documentary special on Family Romance, a family rental company founded by Yuichi Ishii. The 30-minute special featured a man who hires a wife and kids after his wife’s death. To the audiences’ dismay, however, Nhk—and the New Yorker, which also produced a lengthy profile on Ishii—later found that even the man himself (including other clients featured) was an employee of Family Romance. In its follow-up investigation of the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that phone calls to Ishii and his company were left unanswered,...
- 7/3/2020
- MUBI
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