When the tabloids reported that a woman married the man who blinded her, disbelief: this vivid documentary helps one understand--a little.
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06/03/07
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Crazy Love (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:64
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Crazy Love’s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc’s dry, talking heads format.
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Like far too many documentaries today, this formulaic kitsch-fest rests on the strengths of its subject matter to avoid having to present artful or deep filmmaking.
06/01/07
Driven by interviews with the couple and their friends, it's unavoidably a talking-heads film, but home movies help to fill out their story, and so do their appearances on several famous talk shows.
06/01/07
This astounding saga, which is told strictly in chronological order with lots of well-chosen film clips and photographs, is recounted mostly by the now elderly Pugach and Riss themselves.
06/01/07
Top Critic[Director] Klores' pacing and his heart-stopping editing that give the film its punch, and his amazing and well-selected soundtrack puts an ironic polish on a love story that's far too strange to be fiction.
06/01/07
When your subjects are raconteurs on the level of Burt and Linda Pugach, you could train a Fisher-Price toy camera on them and let the movie make itself.
06/01/07
Crazy Love uses archival footage and fresh interviews to get at the dark heart of a passion that spanned half a century. How? Damned if I know. But I couldn't stop watching.
06/01/07
Top CriticKlores makes vivid use of a wide variety of snapshots, headlines, TV news coverage, and some decent re-enactment footage.
06/01/07
What's missing from this unusual love story is love.
06/01/07
some quite serious questions are actually dealt with in admirable fashion
05/31/07
Klores never succeeds in making these outrageous turns of events all that surprising and Crazy Love feels like obsession that's been warmed over once too often.
05/31/07
Formally, [director Klores'] film is a standard-issue documentary, combining period footage with talking-head interviews. But his talking heads are a hoot and their story is a Gothic yarn of obsession, crime and forgiveness.
05/31/07
Top CriticLike any good documentarian (and unlike most publicists), Klores lets us draw our own conclusions. With a tone free of outrage or judgment, he tells the story of Pugach, a successful young lawyer, and Riss, a hottie with a taste for the good life.
05/31/07
It's a populist soap opera abounding in nostalgic evocations of decades past and compressed into 90 minutes of lurid narrative.
05/31/07
It's a freak show of a fairy tale, rendered by a filmmaker who knows how to pierce tabloid reality right in its anguished, bloody heart.
05/30/07
Top CriticThat there's enough 'plot' in this bona fide melodrama to fill a dozen docs is conducive to the movie's near-total evasion of outside perspective.
05/29/07
Top CriticThe movie distills every functionally dysfunctional relationship you’ve ever had into one horrific case study.
05/29/07
Top CriticMight be the greatest date movie ever made but not necessarily the best movie to see on a first or second date.
05/29/07
A fascinating flick for anyone looking for a new reason to hate lawyers.
05/28/07
Crazy Love has a tabloid story to kill for, and a basic nonfiction form to snooze over.
05/27/07
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