Eric borsuk american animals5/8/2023 ![]() The film he eventually made, American Animals, which premiered at this year’s Sundance (and opens in limited release on June 1st), isn’t not a documentary – it is a doc, yes. ![]() “It was like, well, let’s find a way where the form of the movie actually reflects that idea: of falling into a movie.” “The starting point has to be the story, and this was a story about a group of young men who are almost trying to inhabit a movie fantasy instead of their real lives,” Layton says, sitting in the blinding sunlight on a balcony at the London in West Hollywood. Then he started exchanging letters with the guys, who were – spoiler alert – sitting in prison, their crime having failed spectacularly. ![]() When filmmaker Bart Layton first began to investigate the story of four young men who tried to steal $12 million worth of old books from the Transylvania University library, he intended to make a documentary. ![]()
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