Billy The Kid
What:
Billy The Kid
When:
Out now through Siren Visual
Watch the trailer:
Here
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Billy is a 15-year-old from small-town Maine. He's a funny, articulate dork with an imagination, a propensity to say exactly what he's thinking, and an appetite for pop culture.
Jennifer Vendetti's documentary portrait has won critical praise and awards across the world (including the audience prize at MIFF 2007). Her achievement isn't only having introduced us to this real-life Napoleon Dynamite; it's evoking both the emotional turmoil we all experienced as teenagers and the affectionate, embarrassed way we remember adolescence now.
We're never told what's wrong with Billy - Asperger's syndrome? As he tells us, he's ‘different in the mind'. His first love, Heather, appears overwhelmed by Billy's motor-mouthed courtship, but there's a wonderfully tender scene in which the pair take an evening walk. When Billy finally asks, ‘Will you be my girlfriend?' a grizzled bunch of onlookers burst into applause. ‘Years of loneliness have been murder,' Billy tells them gravely.
Haven't we all felt like that? Venditti calls Billy ‘a young Don Quixote'; he might be ignored or ridiculed but he's got the keys to the human condition.
Format: DVD
Mood: Whimsical
Keywords: Siren Visual, Documentary, Film
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