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Pro. Kultur Films
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Essentially, a "Bravo" style bio-doc, this 43-minute piece still makes for an interesting summation of the life of the Nobel-prize winning William Faulkner -- as the film suggests, one of the 20th century's greatest American writers. Tellingly, it begins with the dashing young Faulkner returning home from WW I where he claimed to have been injured while crash-landing his fighter plane. In truth, the armistice was signed before he ever faced any combat, but this lie, as the film suggests, was perhaps his first fictional character. Faulkner enjoyed several years thereafter of phenomenal production, creating some of his finest novels -- including The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying -- in a dizzyingly short span of time. The dying of the old south fuelled his creative energies, it would seem. While the film itself is barely more than crib notes of his life and career, including his infamously disastrous foray into Hollywood which the Coen brothers allude to in Barton Fink, you still come away with a strong desire to read more of his work -- never a bad thing.
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