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    Me and My Brother

    1969     Drama    
    USA
    1h 31min

    This documentary about poet Peter Orlovsky's schizophrenic brother, Julius, is a film within a film and is generally regarded as photographer/documentarian Frank's masterwork. Brother Julius spent years in a mental hospital and upon release was put into his brother's care. Frank captures the brothers' day-to-day lives, as well as a road trip with Allen Ginsberg. At times the film breaks into another film about actors working on a film about them; cinematic devices -- including black-and-white, color cutting, and unsychronized sound -- lend an element of visual schizophrenia to the work. One of the players is a young Christopher Walken. The emerging document is a testament to the camera's voyeuristic tendencies and a commentary on the mentally ill in society as well as an investigation into the life of the filmmaker himself.

    Directed byRobert Frank
    Written byRobert Frank, Allen Ginsberg
    CompanyNew Yorker FilmsNew Yorker FilmsNew Yorker Films

    Starring

    Julius Orlovsky
    Peter Orlovsky
    Christopher Walken
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