{"id":101325,"date":"2012-08-09T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=101325"},"modified":"2012-08-08T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T03:19:37","slug":"walk-away-renee-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/08\/09\/walk-away-renee-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk Away Renee Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Walk Away Renee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Jonathan Caouette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2004 Jonathan Caouette made a film, &#8220;Tarnation,&#8221; about his tumultuous upbringing with his maternal grandparents and fractured, on-and-off-again relationship with his\u00a0disturbed mother, Renee LeBlanc, who suffered from psychosis after undergoing shock treatments in her adolescence following a period of time being paralyzed. The movie, which screened at Sundance and Cannes,\u00a0became something of a media sensation for being edited on free iMovie software on a Mac and having a budget of only a couple hundred dollars (though subsequently brushed up sonically prior to a theatrical release), but it was no parlor trick. An intense and unsettling autobiographical bricolage, the movie had important things to say about psychological\u00a0abuse and the familial legacy of mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walk Away Renee,&#8221; which premiered as a work-in-progress at last year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, represents Caouette&#8217;s follow-up to &#8220;Tarnation,&#8221; and it also centers around his 58-year-old mother, now living in a group home in Houston, diagnosed with acute bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. While partially framed around a 2010 road trip to bring Renee to an assisted living facility closer to him, in New York, the film is, more broadly, an achingly\u00a0melancholic,\u00a0fairly haunting and\u00a0inescapably\u00a0human document that shines a light on some of the\u00a0less typically discussed\u00a0dimensions of mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>The mode of its telling conforms to Caouette&#8217;s collagist instincts, incorporating\u00a0digital home video footage, large swathes of photo flashback montage, probing but casual conversational footage,\u00a0and even a string of answering machine messages from his mother that\u00a0captures the wild swings of her many moods. During the road trip, Caouette &#8212; wearing under his eyes the bags of someone who&#8217;s had to\u00a0spend a lifetime\u00a0emotionally bobbing and weaving &#8212; deals with lost medications and seemingly ad hominem attacks. 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It can hurt, this reflection of reality, but there&#8217;s a sad, purple beauty here as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/walk-away-renee-movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/walk-away-renee-movie.jpg\" alt=\"Walk Away Renee Movie\" title=\"Walk Away Renee Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-101780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/walk-away-renee-movie.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/walk-away-renee-movie-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/walk-away-renee-movie-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Walk Away Renee Director: Jonathan Caouette In 2004 Jonathan Caouette made a film, &#8220;Tarnation,&#8221; about his tumultuous upbringing with his maternal grandparents and fractured, on-and-off-again relationship with his\u00a0disturbed mother, Renee LeBlanc, who suffered from psychosis after undergoing shock treatments in her adolescence following a period of time being paralyzed. 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