Martin Persiel's splendid "documentary" could well be subtitled "And It Ain't the Truth." After having swept awards on the film festival circuit last year (including the Berlinale's Dialogue en Perspective prize for young filmmakers), the nonfiction This Ain't California was reveled to have a healthy dose of fiction in it after all—and most of the old skateboarding footage of the film's central figure, the late Denis "Panik" Paraceck, was actually that of skateboarder/model Kai Hillebrandt. Oh, and Paraceck never existed. That's just the tip of Persiel's manipulation of both reality and the very definition of "documentary." But even if you go in knowing you're watching Gm filmmaking, California (flawlessly edited by Maxine Gödecke) is engrossing. An inspired mi...
- 4/12/2013
- Village Voice
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