Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
This documentary about Robert Evans is a singular cinematic experience — its innovative use of still photography animated with depth and parallax motion, combined with Evans' own hypnotic narration, creates an entirely distinctive visual language. The cinematography and presentation style were genuinely groundbreaking for documentary filmmaking. Evans' voice and larger-than-life persona make it compelling, though the story is inevitably shaped by his self-mythologizing perspective, limiting dramatic objectivity. The ending feels somewhat anticlimactic given the explosive energy of the earlier Hollywood golden-age segments.