Crazy Love (2007)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 19
Crazy Love's subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc's dry, talking heads format.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 8
Crazy Love's subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc's dry, talking heads format.
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"Crazy Love" is an unsettliong true story about an obsessive relationship between a married man and a beautiful, single 20-year old woman, which began in 1957 and continues today.
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All Critics (89) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (19) | DVD (8)
As with all banner-head stories, there comes a point when you tire of being screamed at.
Top CriticA Bronx tale full of jaw-dropping behavior and jaw-dropping hairdos.
It's too easy to feel superior to these two people and their marriage in hell for the sake of some easy (or even uneasy) laughter.
Far too readily tends to play this pathetic story for laughs.
Particularly because many viewers have already seen the TV-news version, almost any other genre would have been even more compelling -- a fictionalized drama, perhaps, or Truman Capote-style narrative non-fiction.
You can't make this stuff up.
The in-your-face documentary recalls the sensational tabloid story from the 1950s.
Crazy Love...sidles up to us, thrills and surprises us, seduces us with the pop flavor of its mid-century paperback aesthetic and its titillating tabloid tale. Crazy Love is chummy.
Apresenta, mesmo que de forma convencional, uma história de amor fascinante em suas insanas reviravoltas.
Stranger than fiction: This decades-long amour fou is so astonishing in its twists and turns that it's hard to believe it's factual. While contextualizing the tale in the pre-feminist era, Klores leaves some mysteries open, thus allowing for speculation
There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!
Directors Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens treat this as a straight-up documentary and it is fascinating in a terribly sad sort of way. But it's difficult not to wonder why we need to hear this story.
Quite brilliant.
The film lassoes you in with "ya gotta hear this" prurience.
Offers little save morbid titillation.
Crazy Love is tabloid journalism at its most base and vulgar, with the same moral bankruptcy as the media outlets that turned this tragedy into grotesque copy in the first place.
You say 'psychotic codependency' like it's a bad thing.
[Director] Klore's grasp of his characters give this movie depth.
Equal parts heartwarming and repulsive, the compulsively watchable film is certainly 90 of the fastest, weirdest minutes I've spent in a theater in a long time.
...an unsettling documentary about the pathological "love" of one damaged human for another
Despite knowing some of the story's more jaw-dropping developments beforehand, I was still riveted and surprised by the movie.
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