Some couples can’t get enough of one another. Let’s just say that this upcoming June doc tests those limits. When I was first flipping through the film selections offered in this year’s Sundance fest guide, I remembered reading the passage to this Dan Klores' doc and thinking… is this a real life version of the kind of mangled and abusive relationship found in Scorsese’s Raging Bull? The B&W feature saw Cathy Moriarty to as the abused wife to Bobby DeNiro’s interpretation of Jake LaMotta. Comparisons to the age difference older male/young female, the time period and to the setting (The Bronx) are perhaps what made me think this in the first place.
Today, we have the exclusive first look at the poster one sheet. Magnolia Pictures will release the documentary film on June 1st. Hoping to repeat the profitability and popularity they had with the Enron doc, the distributor is so confident about the quality of the film that it was the first announced buy at this year's Sundance. Scroll down to read the full synopsis.
Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness.