Fantastic documentary recommended to me by a friend. Both of us are filmmakers. He loved everything about this series - the shooting style, the editing and especially the collage-style graphics which some people here seem to hate. I just don't get it because I completely agree with my friend - this series is brilliant.
I think most people who say it's too slow are Americans, and are used to extremely fast-paced productions. That isn't always a good thing, and thankfully, the rest of the world hasn't lost the ability to watch other types of content yet. I love slower-paced films where you don't feel like you're being hypnotised by a stream of fast-moving images or bombarded with new information and cheap emotional tricks every minute. In this case, you really get the feeling that the filmmakers respect both the characters and their audience. And when I read about the painstaking process of the making of "Love Fraud", I feel nothing but respect and admiration for the women who created it.
As someone who is very interested in personality disorders and stories of all kinds of fraudsters, this was fascinating to watch. Highly recommended.
I think most people who say it's too slow are Americans, and are used to extremely fast-paced productions. That isn't always a good thing, and thankfully, the rest of the world hasn't lost the ability to watch other types of content yet. I love slower-paced films where you don't feel like you're being hypnotised by a stream of fast-moving images or bombarded with new information and cheap emotional tricks every minute. In this case, you really get the feeling that the filmmakers respect both the characters and their audience. And when I read about the painstaking process of the making of "Love Fraud", I feel nothing but respect and admiration for the women who created it.
As someone who is very interested in personality disorders and stories of all kinds of fraudsters, this was fascinating to watch. Highly recommended.