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Henry Fool

Posted on February 27, 1999August 20, 2018 by Village Vidiot

“Henry Fool,” 27 February 1999 (1997), video.  Interesting, oddly humorous (often grossly so) and peculiar story of a young garbage-man transformed from tongue-tied sanitary engineer to Noble-laureate poet by a bizarre stranger who gets him to write. Well-acted piece by Hal Hartley. Owes more than a bow in style at first to “Eraserhead” but becomes its own film quickly. A few gross moments of vomiting and elimination. Interesting for portraying a poet accused of pornography and genius without ever giving us a sense of what his art really is We never come to know what is this great art.

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