Aaron Porter, Christi Taylor, Christian Taylor

British documentarian Lindy Heymann trains her camera on British expatriates working in Hollywood, where she witnesses fellow documentarian Christian Taylor getting the axe from an executive producer....( read more  read more... ) The documentary crew then trails Taylor to Las Vegas, where he hopes to achieve stardom. Taylor rooms with veteran chorus member Erich Miller, who grooms his new charge via a series of dance lessons, auditions and other embarrassments.

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 2004

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  • January 22, 2009
    its a clever mockumentary!!!
  • June 16, 2008
    Genuinely original & endearing! HIGHLY reccomended...
  • May 1, 2007
    A young British documentarian, Lindy Heymann, is given the assignment of finding a successful young British subject living in the US and making a career in show-business. She chooses as her subject Christian Taylor, a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under. Just as she's about t...( read more)o film her final interview with him, she accidentally overhears him get fired by the shows creator, Alan Ball. Christian flees to Las Vegas, and Lindy follows. When she catches up with him, Christian, who does not realise she knows he was fired, claims he is doing research for a new script he is writing - an action thriller set in Vegas.

    What follows is a brilliantly clever mockumentary, as Lindy pursues Christian (at first reluctantly) as he tries out for auditions as a dancer, in what he claims is part of his research for his script. The boundaries of truth and fiction blur as Christian soon becomes obsessed with the audition process and his research becomes ever more "method".

    This is a very touching film. Christian Taylor (who really was a writer on Six Feet Under - though everything else is fictitious) is a brilliant presence and seems to have a natural talent; I frequently forgot that this was a mockumentary and not a documentary. The film raises questions about deception, ambition, and identity. It's also quietly heartbreaking - a scene where Christian discloses his awful feeling of loneliness, and another where he has an emotional meltdown in a dance class, are powerful, and the film is presented very realistically and without winking to the audience.

    A nice surprise to a film I've put off watching for a long time. And I've just read it won Directorial Debut at the British Independent Awards..

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