Kate Plays Christine
- 2016
- US
- 1h 52min
- 15
- Directed by: Robert Greene
- Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil
- UK release: 14 October 2016
A study of artistic endeavour, loneliness and cultural notoriety, with director Greene following actress Sheil as she prepares to play (in a non-existent film) real-life TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who committed suicide during a live TV broadcast in 1974. Ambitious and beguiling, if oppressive.
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Kate Plays Christine
10 Oct 2016
Ambitious documentary exploring the sad story of Christine Chubbuck and the artistic process itself
In July of 1974, a young Florida TV reporter named Christine Chubbuck acquired a slight and macabre form of fame, by fatally shooting herself in the head during a live news broadcast. On the desk in front of her was a handwritten script about her death…
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