Can you remember the last time a documentary actually took your breath away?
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Sundance Film Festival U.S.
This one, I thought, was just one more in a crowded season.
But within minutes I knew I was wrong, stunningly so.
They had filmed Snowden in real time, as he prepared for his flight to Russia.
Since then, other documentaries have made an impression.
But Im still waiting for another film that risks so much in pursuit of so consequential a truth asCitizenfour.
Not that theSundance scheduleis uninteresting.
After all, its hard to argue with the metaverse, or a hot hand on theguitarron.
In all, the Sundance documentarians seem to be nesting in festival orthodoxy while the world churns outside.
An overriding concern in Park City is identity.
There is noCitizenfournone that I can see, at any rate, and I do hope Im wrong.
