Country: United States
Directed by: Todd Solondz
DP: Frederick Elmes
Storytelling is a film divided in two segments: Fiction and Non-Fiction. This post only concerns the latter.
A dysfunctional family is the segment's focus. A "documentarian" (Giamatti) makes a documentary about the eldest son of the family. So there are some meta themes in there. Storytelling spoofs and satirizes one of my least favorite films, American Movie (1999). The spoof is called "American Scooby".
The movies where Frederick Elmes has participated in directing the cinematography or other technical aspects seem to follow a certain trend: broken or dysfunctional American families (Brothers, Blue Velvet, A Woman Under the Influence, Broken Flowers, The Ice Storm, etc.).
A defining quality of Solondz's films is that, no matter how terrible the characters may be, they are never treated without warmth or fondness by Solondz.
And yes, the man in the bottom left still is Conan O'Brien.
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