I’m not sure what Wellspring Media paid for Tarnation, the 218 dollar film which most definitely was their most profitable title with half a million dollar take at the box office, but if they were up and running today, you’d be sure that they would be among the more interested parties in getting the distribution rights for Jonathan Caouette’s second docu-outing. IFC Films’ Sundance Selects label have picked up Jonathan Caouette’s Walk Away Renee — just fresh from its world premiere screening at Critic’s Week during the Cannes Film Festival.
Gist: Not a sequel, but a road-trip follow up uses the same exploratory cinematic language that Caouette employed in Tarnation. THR’s review says that it “yields far less consistent rewards”, but I think this is somewhat expected.
Worth Noting: Just prior to the feature film, Caouette directed Chloë Sevigny in the 2010 short, NYFF, Sundance and Rotterdam-selected All Flowers in Time.
Do We Care? : We unfortunately missed the film’s showing during Cannes earlier this year, so we’re saving our catharsis when we will surely catch up the doc while its making the festival rounds. Expect a late 2011 release.
