Kate Plays Christine

Name: Kate Plays Christine
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 24, 2016
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 75

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: August 24, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who killed herself on national television in 1974.

Director: Robert Greene

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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Richard Brody

Aug 22, 2016

The new movie by Robert Greene is a tour de force in the blending and bending of genres. Read full review

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The Film Stage Daniel Schindel

Jan 30, 2016

As an exploration of identity as it is felt, projected, and interpreted, this is masterful. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

Jan 30, 2016

There's a tangible sensitivity to Kate Plays Christine that is constantly present as the project explores two personas and a gamut of topics (gender politics, gun control, and depression among them). Read full review

The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

Jan 30, 2016

Greene makes it clear early on that his interests lie less with a news report than with what Werner Herzog dubbed “ecstatic truth”. The dial swerves between “catching something” to “clearly rehearsed” and back again, and all to the betterment of the final project. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Aug 24, 2016

I would simultaneously argue that Sheil and Greene go off the rails several times during Kate Plays Christine, most notably in their overly artful and self-conscious attempt to re-enact the shooting but also that they get viewers closer to the real Christine Chubbuck than I would have thought possible. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 15, 2016

Although Greene swerves unnecessarily into obvious audience indictment at the end, Kate Plays Christine makes for a twisty, unsettling probe into our fascination with transforming lives, and deaths, into digestible storytelling. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Aug 23, 2016

Kate Plays Christine is a documentary, but often a totally fake one, cheekily defining itself as its own making-of DVD supplement and documenting its own evaporation into near-nothingness. Every scene cries — or whines — about the entire project's inherent impossibility. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Aug 14, 2021

If you're really interested in seeing a side that we don't get to see in the final product of an acting transformation, this is a great option.

Especially when that transformation is focused on a performance that requires becoming a real person, and in this case one as infamous as ChristineIf you're really interested in seeing a side that we don't get to see in the final product of an acting transformation, this is a great option.

Especially when that transformation is focused on a performance that requires becoming a real person, and in this case one as infamous as Christine Chubbuck.… Expand

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