Charles is to be applauded for building a remarkable, maze for the viewer to enjoyably amble through, with some hard truths buried along the way. It’s kind of like Borges and Nabokov got together with Linklater to make a Rob Reiner mockumentary.
--Steve Patterson
The Farewell Wake plays sometimes as a satiric romp about avant-garde art, and sometimes like a private-eye detective story, and sometimes like a philosophical reverie on the process of aging and death. It’s really a movie for grownups, and even its pacing is different from the Hollywood norm: its rhythm is more like a novel’s, which isn’t all that surprising, because Deemer’s a novelist, too.
--Bob Hicks
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| Rick Zimmer as C. D. Yarowski, an avant-garde artist |
I watched the 2011 director's cut yesterday and enjoyed it. Naturally I saw more to cut ha ha but that's the way it goes. Dramatic projects aren't finished so much as abandoned. When
Christmas at the Juniper Tavern was revised here some time ago, I attended rehearsals and cut a couple minutes off the ending. Rewriting never, never ends.
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