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CRAZY LOVE

April 26th 2008 03:22
Recently premiering at The Sundance Film Festival, the documentary Crazy Love is the horrifying, moving and downright weird saga of New Yorkers Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. Burt was a highly successful accident and injury lawyer in the fifties, and despite his deeply average looks, he regularly stepped out with a bevy of beautiful woman on his arm. He dabbled in film producing, had a private plane and also owned a nightclub. When he saw the 21-year-old Linda Riss sitting on a park bench in 1957, he uttered the words (according to his friends): “I’ve got to have her”, and set about sweeping her off her feet with his moneyed lifestyle.


His charms worked to a point, but Burt wanted Linda’s hand in marriage. As their relationship progressed, however, the layers of lies that surrounded Burt’s life began to peel away and he soon revealed his other side, as his affections turned dangerously obsessive. When another man came onto the scene and courted Linda, Burt grew darkly jealous and became irrational, paranoid and violent.

Filmmaker Dan Klores co-directed Crazy Love with actor/producer (and soon to be Lost cast member) Fisher Stevens. Constructed using a wealth of photographs and archival footage, both Linda and Burt narrate their own stories, and it’s alternately shocking and hilarious. The aging Linda is direct, blunt and pragmatic but Burt seems oddly at ease with his erratic and strange deeds. Given the truly bizarre nature of their relationship, the less you know about their story, the more entertaining the ride is. Suffice to say, it’s a superb and thoroughly riveting tale of madness, obsession and undying devotion.


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Comment by JohnDoe

April 26th 2008 03:43
hi Jarrod,

This one is high on my must see list, the story just sounds incredible and the characters complex. Love docos liek this thanks, for yet another review that leaves me wanting to see it.

Comment by Tracy

April 26th 2008 04:01
Hi Jarrod

I agree, this is definitely a film I'd recommend seeing.

Great review,

Tracy

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