A scene from Flora Foster Jenkins. My review of the film Flora Foster Jenkins originally appeared in Canada's National Post newspaper.
Much like a car accident that people can’t look away from, there’s something irresistibly fascinating about the human failing of self-delusion.
Miguel de Cervantes knew he was on to something, back in 1605, when he invented Don Quixote, the self-styled knight whose vivid imagination completely usurped reality. More recently, the 1994 biopic Ed Wood focused on the famously inept filmmaker.
Much like a car accident that people can’t look away from, there’s something irresistibly fascinating about the human failing of self-delusion.
Miguel de Cervantes knew he was on to something, back in 1605, when he invented Don Quixote, the self-styled knight whose vivid imagination completely usurped reality. More recently, the 1994 biopic Ed Wood focused on the famously inept filmmaker.
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