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Summary Mark Kidel's biographical documentary features sections of Cary Grant's unpublished memoir read by Jonathan Pryce as well as personal home movies filmed by the legendary movie actor.
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Becoming Cary Grant
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 30, 2016
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Summary Mark Kidel's biographical documentary features sections of Cary Grant's unpublished memoir read by Jonathan Pryce as well as personal home movies filmed by the legendary movie actor.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
62
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The man gets his due in Becoming Cary Grant, a moody jewel of a film that draws on Grant’s unpublished autobiography for much of its narration (delivered by actor Jonathan Pryce) and on a wealth of home-movie footage that provides a Grant’s-eye view of a bygone world.
Its only failings--and that is perhaps too strong a word--are a few re-created scenes of the actor’s acid sessions and some questionable or obvious juxtapositions of images. But the film has an interesting meditative pace and a kind of self-sufficient weight.
The film, elusive and impressionistic, is at least somewhat successful in capturing that inner tumult.
Perfectly decent as an appreciative account of the great star's life and career, Mark Kidel's film aspires to something more. ... But it falls far short of the fascination of the 2010 Vanity Fair article that revealed all this in the first place, “Cary in the Sky With Diamonds” by Judy Balaban (who is interviewed onscreen here) and Cari Beauchamp.
Even with a subject as great as Cary Grant, and a take on him that appears to have all its metaphysical Old Hollywood signifiers in place, Becoming Cary Grant is a murky and rather disappointing biographical portrait. T
Kidel makes good use of clips from several Grant films at times, but at other times, Kidel goes terribly off the rails. ... The documentary adds to the mountain of information about Grant, and brings us somewhat closer to understanding who he really was. But it’s likely aspects of both Archie Leach and Cary Grant will remain an enigma forever.
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Production Company:
- Yuzu Productions
- Ro*co Films International
- ARTE
Initial Release Date: Nov 30, 2016
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination