Movie #1665 ........................."Marwencol"

Movie #1665 "Marwencol."  This is the documentary that "Welcome to Marwen" is based on, and because I just saw that one recently, I thought I would seek out the original inspiration for the film.  And I liked this but not as well as the "Welcome to Marwen" one, mostly because "Marwen" is in story form , and it got more of an emotional response from me because I got involved in the story, always trying to figure out the puzzle of Mr. Hogancamp.  This doc also approaches Mr. Hogencamp as a puzzle, carefully going through all the pieces to put the puzzle together.  The documentary is divided into subheadings like "the enemy," or"his dolls" --- all of them introducing some factor of the world he has invented after the awful hate beating that he received from the guys in and outside the bar.  It goes more into why he wears high heels and how that got started with him.  In the movie "Marwen" it is covertly in the background and just becomes a quirky thing about him, but one that might have gotten him the beating.  We get to know the women in his life more in "Marwen," and I appreciated that.  Bottom line is that it was nice to see the real people that inspired the "Marwen" film, but there wasn't that much more info given in the documentary and it ran really slow and went too long.  I would give it a 3.5.



"MARWENCOL"    2010     1 hour and 23 minutes

After a vicious attacks leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.

Director:

 Jeff Malmberg

Stars:

 Mark Hogancamp, Emmanuel Nneji, Edda Hogancamp