A filmed record of a live-in-concert monologue by Spalding Gray, a sort of sequel to Swimming to Cambodia, on his attempts to complete a semi-autobiographical novel while visiting Los Angeles, Nicaragua, the Soviet Union, and a classical Freudian psychoanalyst. In other words, whatever else it is -- the distilled essence of New York Smart Set, a bout of logorrhea, a budget traveller's ego trip, a laugh a half-hour, a portrait of moist lips -- it is not a film. And no amount of would-be evocative lighting changes, would-be enhancing camera angles, would-be expressive camera movements, would-be descriptive background music and sound effects can make it into one. Directed by Nicholas Broomfield. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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