Leon Gast’s
Smash His Camera qualifies, hands down, as one of the most fascinating releases of the summer movie season. It’s a biographical portrait of one of the most alternately revered and loathed men in show business, self-styled mega-paparazzi Ron Galella, and among other things, the film’s success (and validity) can be measured via its wondrous tonal ambiguities. Within a documentary framework, Gast travels the
Citizen Kane route, surrounding his subject with interviewees who react to Galella with responses that the director contrasts
ad extremis, typing the photographer as everything from bottom-feeding vermin to a pop-culture hero. We wal...
Released:
2009
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
88 mins