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Review: Beautiful Boy

“The omission of any attempt to understand Sam better than a stereotype, and the romanticizing of his nature mistreat and oversimplify a tragedy that is becoming an epidemic. Including a few pseudo artistic moments does not grant the right to call a murderer a Beautiful Boy.”

Jesse Klein

Published on July 22, 2011

Beautiful Boy

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Jesse Klein

Jesse Klein (MFA in Film and Video Production from The University of Texas at Austin) is a Montreal-born filmmaker and writer. His first feature film, Shadowboxing, (RVCQ '10, Lone Star Film Festival '10) . As well as contributing to IONCINEMA, he is the senior contributor to This Recording and writes for ION Magazine and Hammer to Nail. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (All About My Mother), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardenne Bros. (Rosetta), Haneke (The White Ribbon), Hsiao-Hsien (Flowers of Shanghai), Kar-wai (In The Mood For Love), Kiarostami (Close-Up), Lynch (Blue Velvet), Tarantino (Jackie Brown), Van Sant (To Die For), von Trier (Breaking The Waves)