Rating: 4/5
Director: David Meiklejohn
Anyone familiar with Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2009 film, Easier With Practice, will be able to vouch for the fact that Davy Rothbart’s heart is, indeed, very much an idiot. That film was a fictionalized account of an ill-fated chapter in Rothbart’s romantic history – some time spent on tour promoting his writing, criss-crossing the country, and seeking connection with an ultimately unreachable and inscrutable woman. In David Meiklejohn’s My Heart Is An Idiot, Rothbart and his messy love life is again our subject, but the first-time director’s documentary gives us further perspective on where all that aortic idiocy really comes from to hilarious and heart-warming results.
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Director: David Meiklejohn
Anyone familiar with Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s 2009 film, Easier With Practice, will be able to vouch for the fact that Davy Rothbart’s heart is, indeed, very much an idiot. That film was a fictionalized account of an ill-fated chapter in Rothbart’s romantic history – some time spent on tour promoting his writing, criss-crossing the country, and seeking connection with an ultimately unreachable and inscrutable woman. In David Meiklejohn’s My Heart Is An Idiot, Rothbart and his messy love life is again our subject, but the first-time director’s documentary gives us further perspective on where all that aortic idiocy really comes from to hilarious and heart-warming results.
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- 5/23/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
The documentary My Heart is An Idiot, David Meiklejohn's directorial debut, follows the romantic travails of the amusingly -- and sometimes painfully -- solipsistic Davy Rothbart, the founder of Found Magazine, a compendium of found notes and love letters sent in from around the country. More interestingly for our purposes, Rothbart also provided the story for Easier with Practice, the brilliant phone-sex indie that garnered a criminally unfair Nc-17 from the MPAA last year.
You can see the creepy-but-sweet origins of Easier with Practice in My Heart is An Idiot, in which Meiklejohn documented two annual tours that Rothbart took in support of Found. Originally conceived as a documentary about the magazine tours, a more interesting tale of unrequited obsession grew out of it, which Meiklejohn meticulously edited together over the last few years, along with a side story -- that I won't spoil -- recreated with staged footage...
You can see the creepy-but-sweet origins of Easier with Practice in My Heart is An Idiot, in which Meiklejohn documented two annual tours that Rothbart took in support of Found. Originally conceived as a documentary about the magazine tours, a more interesting tale of unrequited obsession grew out of it, which Meiklejohn meticulously edited together over the last few years, along with a side story -- that I won't spoil -- recreated with staged footage...
- 5/17/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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