Subject

Released Nov 3, 2023

1h 37m

Documentary

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In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences -- good, bad, and complicated -- of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.

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Peter Debruge

Variety

Tiexiera and Hall lay the foundation for an essential discussion about the philosophy and ethics of nonfiction filmmaking — a subject so vast, it easily might have spawned a TV series or media studies course (and probably still should).

Nov 6, 2023

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

"Subject" includes harrowing stories while leading voices in the documentary sphere offer their insights. It’s not a film out for blood, which becomes a blessing and a curse for its filmmakers.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 3, 2023

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Calum Marsh

New York Times

At no point do Tiexiera or Hall deal with their own complicity in any of this: They are, after all, making a documentary, and we get no sense of how they might answer the questions they pose to other documentarians.

Nov 2, 2023

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Offers an incisive look at the new documentary boom (looking at you, weekly shitty Netflix true crime and music “docs”) and the slowly fading line between insightful docs and reality TV/hagiography.

Feb 13, 2024

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Michael Atkinson

LA Weekly/Village Voice

The ambivalences in Subject pile up beautifully, and we can’t grump too hard on the filmmakers for posing dilemmas they can’t immediately solve.

Jan 16, 2024

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Jacob Oller

Paste Magazine

But when its pet topics enter into conversation with one another, revealing a throughline underscoring the basic rights of everyone working on a film project, Subject cruises along.

Rated: 7.2/10

Nov 13, 2023

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Camilla Hall

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Jennifer Tiexiera

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In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences -- good, bad, and complicated -- of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.

Director: Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera
Producer: Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera, Joe Caterini
Screenwriter: Camilla Hall, Jennifer Tiexiera, Lauren Saffa
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co: Lady & Bird Films, Time Studios
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2023
Runtime: 1h 37m

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