A sympathetic take on highly imaginative Mark Hogancamp, an Upstate New Yorker whose 2000 trauma (loss of memory and more, due to a vicious beating by bar louts) led him to create a therapeutic world of military dress-up dolls and sexy little vamps. Their WWII in Marwencol, a toy-scale Belgian village, vents and voodoos the fears, dreams, and attachments of this engaging guy crammed with “issues.” Jeff Malmberg’s documentary enjoys the amusing zest of Barbies kicking Nazi butt, but the movie is about the mysteries of human recovery, and his supple framing respects the weird integrity of Mark’s vision. (2011) — David Elliott
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