Belly Talkers

1996
1 h 8 min

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaSpeaking without moving your lips is an ancient art, practiced very seriously already in ancient Egypt. Today's ventriloquists are mostly found in the entertainment world, although today's s... Ler tudoSpeaking without moving your lips is an ancient art, practiced very seriously already in ancient Egypt. Today's ventriloquists are mostly found in the entertainment world, although today's stand-up artists less often use a talking doll as a partner. Filmmaker Sandra Luckow, herse... Ler tudoSpeaking without moving your lips is an ancient art, practiced very seriously already in ancient Egypt. Today's ventriloquists are mostly found in the entertainment world, although today's stand-up artists less often use a talking doll as a partner. Filmmaker Sandra Luckow, herself a ventriloquist from the United States, made a trip with her doll Juanito, who is from ... Ler tudo

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In addition to look at some of the 20th century's great voice throwers, the film also looks in on those who use it for more than performing. Examples include a child psychologist who uses dummy's to reach patients, those who work the trade shows, and others who use the gift to spread religious propaganda. Finally the film examines the popular notion that ventriloquists tend to be schizophrenic.

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A terrible documentary, which focuses on it's not talented director.

I normally try to be nice, but, the person who made this - the director, and, one of the 'stars' of this documentary about ventriloquism - Ms. Sandra Luckow, is easily one of ... well, not only one of the WORST ventriloquists, but, one of the CREEPIEST I've ever seen.

I love documentaries - especially those a little off-beat. Those about subjects that are not normally given the focus they should, always are tops in my. 'must see.'

The premise of this - about ventriloquists - is interesting.

HOWEVER... not only is Ms Luckow a TERRIBLE ventriloquist (her dummy, a 70's bedecked Puerto Rican... MALE (?!?), the other 'artists' she speaks with are -for the most part - awful.

It begins with a short bio of Sandra, in which she tells how difficult her childhood was, and, how having this dummy made things easier.

Jump to the present day. Sandra's helping her sister out of a cab, with 'Pedro' (I forgot it's name, so, let's just say it's Pedro) on her arm.

They return to Sandra's home, in which Pedro asks if (the sister) brought him anything.

When I think back to the ventriloquists I've seen (and, to be honest: outside of Shari Lewis, Paul Winchell, and Edgar Bergen, I don't know of any more), they ALL had same-gender puppets (Ok, Shari's were 'cartoon' characters,but,still).

To have this dummy speak in a very unnatural male voice is really disturbing. She's absolutely NO charm, NO...anything.

There's so little substance on the history of ventriloquism rather, much of the focus is on Sandra, and her horrible act.

Terrible.