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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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3-Nov-2021, 11:40 AM

Dark Star: H. R. Giger’s World - 2014 - 7/10
AKA - Dark Star: HR Giger’s Welt

Less a traditional bio journey than a study of a working artist in the twilight of his time.
A photographer trails a frail Giger in the last year of his life (he died, age 74, soon after filming concluded).
We see his support staff, assistants, current wife, ex-wives, agent, curator.
Another character is his maze like home, crammed, literally crammed with packed bookcases, paintings, memorabilia, including human skulls.
There is his museum, as well as a bar which must be seen to be believed.
Documentary excels if you want to see the artist and his obsessions with birth-sexuality-death.
As for the man himself, the individual underneath, not as much.