2008 · documentary
Dear Zachary
Directed by Kurt Kuenne1h 34m2008
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
Our read: Dear Zachary (2008) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
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