Tarnation

Tarnation
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 17, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Fox Lorber

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Total Count: 103

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,499
Daring, innovative and emotionally devastating, TARNATION is a milestone in fiercely personal film-making.
Uncut
May 1, 2005
[A] remarkable and remarkably compelling document.
Los Angeles Times
Oct 15, 2004
Rating: B+ -- The movie climbs inside your head and rattles your consciousness.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Dec 10, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Como toda confesión, en la que alguien desnuda su intimidad sin pudor para quien quiera escuchar, Tarnation es capaz de generar desde la fascinación curiosa hasta la incomodidad y el rechazo. Full Review
Uruguay Total
Nov 13, 2006
Jonathan had plenty to be woeful about, but the movie is best when it slips quietly into the pockets between his family's dramatic episodes. Full Review
Paste Magazine
Jun 3, 2008
[A] film that defies description....Some kind of miracle.
Rolling Stone
Oct 28, 2004
TARNATION is complex and bracingly inventive...
Sight and Sound
Apr 1, 2005

Product Description:

TARNATION is a wondrous achievement, a personal essay that miraculously balances despair and tragedy with an overriding air of hopefulness. Raised by a schizophrenic mother and abusive foster parents in and around Houston, Texas, Jonathan Caouette escaped from his bleak surroundings by hiding behind a video camera. Since he was eleven, Jonathan obsessively documented himself and those around him, resulting in a stockpile of videotapes that appeared to have no certain purpose. Around this time, he made another dramatic discovery: he was gay. Inspired by underground horror films, musical theatre, and other forms of pop culture, Jonathan knew that he one day wanted to be a performer, and so, in his early twenties, he moved to New York City, where he acted in student films and found stability in the form of his loving boyfriend, David. When he discovered Apple's easy-to-use iMovie editing software, Jonathan began the arduous process of assembling the endless footage of his past. The result is an autobiographical documentary that defies description, a heart-wrenching, devastating testament to personal human spirit. Even after all that his mother put him through, Caouette heroically stands behind her, which gives TARNATION its unwavering soul and makes it must-see viewing for everyone.

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  • UPC: 720917545325
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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