| IFC Films | Release Date: March 16, 2001 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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13
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9
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A remarkable film about a remarkable man who's lived the kind of life usually reserved for adventure novels and pulp fiction.
Ynever seen a documentary quite like this one, and aren't likely to again.
For him (Schneebaum) it's a journey of stunning rediscovery. For us it's the discovery of a brave soul.
Story of Tobias Schneebaum, a gay New York artist famous for living with, sleeping with - and, gulp, eating with - cannibals in New Guinea.
A fascinating story.
As an exploration of a man who really did take the road less traveled, the film is fascinating.
It's worth seeing simply to make the acquaintance of Tobias, a really extraordinary old guy.
Provides a fascinating glimpse of how the human spirit struggles.
As he explains the male-male relationships and the absence of stigma or judgment, the film soars.
Gay jungle sex (gasp!), gone-native intellectuals, tribal rituals (gulp!), cannibalism (none of which the film shows, by the way) -- it sounds like a "Weekly World News" front page, not the thematic fodder of a highbrow non-fiction film.
There's little evidence to suggest Schneebaum was one of the great explorers of the 20th century, or even that he was particularly curious.
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