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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
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71 out of 100

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  • Summary: Cinema verite reaches a new level of reality in this 1968 film-within-a-film as director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. (William Greaves Productions)

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    100
    This is a movie from the past that's also eerily of a piece with the film culture of now and tomorrow.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    If all this sounds a bit nuts, dangerously self-indulgent and very of its experimental moment, it is. But it's also highly entertaining and, at moments, revelatory about filmmaking as a site of creative tension between individual vision and collective endeavor.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    50
    May be the ultimate paradigm of self-reflexive cinema, eating Godard's tail for him and one-upping the classic anti-cartoon Duck Amuck by submitting to a cunning entropy and a self-inquiry so relentless the movie never moves from square one.

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  1. PersonWithAHat
    8
    This possibly is the truest behind-the-scenes film I have ever seen. While the premise is tumultuous to look upon, it happens to never disappoint on what is a definitive behind-the-scenes film. It isn't a documentary, but preferably a mockumentary, as the director was trying to film a film that is possibly fake, he used so much footage, and behind-the-scenes of behind the scenes, it is truly guaranteed to make your head spin if you try to do the math.… Expand
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