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Documentary • 2024 • 134 min
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)
Overview
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema as effectively to exorcise personal demons in ways both ugly and beautiful. And few directors' sensibilities were more gay, both overtly and covertly. Film historian Daniel Kremer is your tour guide through an obscure, perplexing body of work heretofore ignored and often unfairly shunned. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is an essay documentary of discovery.
Starring Cast
Silvio Narizzano • Daniel Kremer • Jon Jost
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
7.0
Overview
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as a "one-hit wonder" director. Upon closer inspection, however, likely no other filmmaker used cinema as effectively to exorcise personal demons in ways both ugly and beautiful. And few directors' sensibilities were more gay, both overtly and covertly. Film historian Daniel Kremer is your tour guide through an obscure, perplexing body of work heretofore ignored and often unfairly shunned. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is an essay documentary of discovery.
Starring Cast
Silvio Narizzano • Daniel Kremer • Jon Jost
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Not Rated
The available details about the film's narrative and content are not sufficient to assess its political bias or identify dominant themes.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Low
The film utilizes traditional casting choices, and its narrative does not focus on critiquing traditional identities or explicitly promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion themes.
Secondary
LGBTQ: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Trans: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano is a film centered on the life and work of the male director Silvio Narizzano. The production does not feature any characters who were historically or canonically established as one gender and are portrayed on screen as a different gender.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Silvio Narizzano was a real historical figure, documented as white. This film, which centers on his life, features him directly. There is no indication of an actor portraying him as a different race, therefore no race swap occurs.
Family Values: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
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