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Title: Giacometti: Almost in the flesh
Review: I saw this film about three years ago and it hasn't left my mind since. You can look at dozens of photographs of the artist in his studio or at a local cafe, but it isn't until you put his visage together with his voice, his mannerisms, his facial expressions, and the way he responds to a question that you begin to sense what he was really about. Giacometti was a rarity, "the last of his kind" as he put it and represents something that may be too often passed off as cliche--a man trying, without pretention, to come to terms with himself in an infinite and disinterested universe. Why four stars instead of five? Because it just wasn't long enough. And I never would've guessed he didn't have any front teeth.
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