Showing posts with label kim hyun-kyung. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Review: SPECIAL ANNIE Awkwardly Switches From Subject to Artist


By Pierce Conran

Ten years after her feature debut What Are We Waiting For?, documentarian Kim Hyun-kung returns with an intimate film that is both a portrait of a HIV-positive New Yorker and a filmmaker uncertain of her aims. Awkwardly straddling the border between human interest story and self-interest, Special Annie is a lively if curiously narcissistic sophomore effort.