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- 90Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinVreeland’s documentary serves as both a wonderfully evocative time capsule and a candid tribute to a pair of artistic legends.
- 80The Irish TimesTara BradyThe Irish TimesTara BradyAn anecdote concerning the “amusing, bright, and always very vinegary” Gore Vidal being caught by a woman police officer breaking into Williams’s New York apartment would, alone, make Truman & Tennessee required viewing.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovUltimately, Truman & Tennessee is a fascinating but melancholy mash note to the enduring friendship of two genius misfits who, despite constant self doubt barely masked by a raconteur’s seeming insouciance, rocked the literary (and cinematic, despite their mutual distaste for filmic adaptations) world at, in hindsight, just the right time.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreDrawling, florid Southern homosexuals who were “out” long before that was done, or safe to do, they make a fascinating, intensely quotable pair of wits in Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, a documentary built on their relationship with each other, their art, their respective psyches, fame and the world they lived in.
- 75Original-CinLiam LaceyOriginal-CinLiam LaceyThe emotional tone here is sympathetic and elegiac, and since both men have a way with words, often absorbing. Though there is little here that won’t be known by fans of the writers, the format of the interviews is striking.
- 70The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen Kenigsbergthe connections drawn in Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation are sufficiently instructive that watching and listening to these writers is also, in a way, like hearing one author in stereo.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIt’s a pleasure to spend an hour and a half in the resurrected company of these two intellects, but the experience feels like the lazy alternative to reading biographies about either man, while the iMovie-style editing strategy of slow-fading between layers of old photographs makes them feel like ghosts of a long-forgotten past.