From there, it goes back to his origins and through his biography. ![]() We meet Andy on the stage of New York’s Improvisation Comedy Club, giving a taste of what it might have been like to first be exposed to this strangely accented man delivering garbled punchlines, doing unintelligible impressions and then, at the moment of looming climactic disaster, breaking into an impressive Elvis impression. Either way? Sounds nothing like how Thank You Very Much unfolds. On one hand? Sounds annoying! On the other hand? Sounds potentially brilliant. The documentary starts with Kaufman discussing a movie he wants to make, one that begins with the climax, goes into the closing credits, repeats the climax and eventually, through small variations, tells its story. But Thank You Very Much goes into the psychological dead-end of treating Kaufman as a solvable puzzle.įortunately, it’s easy to enjoy Thank You Very Much without being especially convinced by its reductive incursions into Andy Kaufman’s mind - without being convinced that any film, especially one this relatively conventional, might contribute meaningful answers. It’s layered with stories about Kaufman’s process, some perfunctory and some delightful in their own right. The documentary is filled with fantastic footage from Kaufman’s fearless performances, mostly familiar but still wildly iconoclastic. This is the problem that Alex Braverman’s new documentary Thank You Very Much runs into. ![]() Venue: Venice Film Festival (Venice Classics)
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