"From Reality (2023), Tina Satter's true-to-life portrayal of whistleblower Reality Winner, which progresses in real time from harmless small talk to a full-blown FBI grilling, to Radu Jude's Uppercase Print (2020), in which a rebel teen is given the third degree in Ceausescu-era Romania, the title-card proclamation inspired by true events is being taken to a wholly literal new level."
"Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs' time capsule of 1974 New York and its colourful culturati, is based on candid conversation between Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) and her photographer pal Peter (Ben Whishaw), who would die from an Aids-related illness less than a decade later. Meanwhile, Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab is set in January 2024 amid the evacuation of Gaza City, revisiting beat for beat an emergency call centre's attempts to rescue the six-year-old girl of the title to harrowing effect."
Filmmakers increasingly create verbatim films by using transcripts and recordings to reproduce real people's dialogue as closely as possible. Examples include Reality (2023) by Tina Satter, portraying whistleblower Reality Winner in a real-time progression from small talk to an FBI grilling, and Radu Jude's Uppercase Print (2020), which stages a rebel teen's interrogation in Ceausescu-era Romania. Recent UK releases include Peter Hujar's Day by Ira Sachs, reconstructed from candid conversation between Linda Rosenkrantz and photographer Peter, and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab, which reenacts a Gaza emergency call centre rescue attempt. The practice follows earlier word-for-word adaptations and a 2015 verbatim feature film, London Road.
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