Peter Jeno

Great subject. Poorly executed doc with no payoff. 1) Horribly mixed audio. 2) WHY is Jody Foster’s voice not in the center speaker? She’s either stereo or mostly in left channel. And often times the music drowns her voice. 3) The interview audio is horrid at times, (and I’m taking about the clips the cinematographer shot, not the obvious internet submitted interview clips) with massive room echo. The subjects at times had no mic? 4) While the motion graphic work was top shelf, you could have slowed them down a lot and even had 1/2 of the graphics instead, and we would have had more time to look at them. Our eyes need time to look at the moving images that you are showing us. 5) You don’t have to put the little tape recorder graphic with the source year every time you show a clip of the SAME source. You do it once to establish when that footage (the b&w interview) of Guy is 1st shown. Then after that, we don’t need to keep getting reminded of the session date. 6) Re: the giant wall of talking headshots that you zoom in to see one selected person speak - you go thru ALL that establishing shot and zooming into ‘who’s it going to be now?’ nonsense, only to find out you pick a SINGLE sentence (or part of a sentence) from some random person, then that’s it!! What? Did that person not say anything else interesting? Eliminate the giant wall of taking heads and get straight to the person you are showing us. 7) Did you speed up Jody Fosters audio? Slow down the pacing!! With the massive amounts of French throughout this, give us time to digest what we are either seeing or hearing. 8) NO PAYOFF. Prior to the credits rolling, there is ZERO payoff. You don’t show us any of Guy’s films!! After all the building up during the doc, your audience should get a reward with: ‘And this is one of her films.’ Kind of like They Will Never Grow Old, only that director had the decency to only spend the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the film giving us the backstory, before he actually showed us what was being talked about. Instead, you didn’t even show us more that a few seconds of her films.