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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary One man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator. [First Run Features]

Directed By: Brad Bernstein

Written By: Brad Bernstein

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 38 m

Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary One man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator. [First Run Features]

Directed By: Brad Bernstein

Written By: Brad Bernstein

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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90
Jun 13, 2013
A record of a man’s tormented youth, his broad artistic impulses and the price he paid for following them.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
88
Jul 16, 2013
Bernstein communicates Ungerer’s manic spirit and his irrepressible creativity by punctuating the conventions of talking-head interviews and archival footage with animated snippets of Ungerer’s thousands of illustrations.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 5, 2013
The filmmaker makes ample use of Ungerer's drawings and existing documentary material, but sensibly lets the man tell most of his own story, which lends Far Out Isn't Far Enough a raconteur's charm rare among film studies of artists' lives.
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75
Jun 12, 2013
Brad Bernstein's documentary proves that Ungerer's legacy is as historically significant as it is artistically.
By Nick McCarthy FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 11, 2013
The film's delighted affinity with Ungerer's well-turned perspective does lend an advertorial slickness to what might have been a more challenging study of a fascinating and famously elusive subject.
By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 11, 2013
Like many such films, the subject seems more fascinating than the Far Out Isn’t Far Enough’s treatment of him.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 11, 2013
Hardly the trippy icon the doc’s title suggests, the artist is now more like everyone’s slightly seedy hedonistic granduncle, happiest sketching cartoon pigs and walking the moors of County Cork.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Corner of the Cave Media, Far Out Films
Release Date Jun 14, 2013
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/Far-Out-Isnt-Far-Enough-The-Tomi-Ungerer-Story/132708723482352
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Awards

Durban International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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