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Erase and Forget
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Wikipedia article
'Erase and Forget' is a 2017 documentary film directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman which charts the life of American ex-soldier Bo Gritz, in order to examine the links between Hollywood films and 'America's hidden wars'.
Synopsis
'Erase and Forget' features interviews with Bo Gritz filmed over a ten-year period, alongside archival footage and images gleaned from the internet.
Production and release
'Erase and Forget' is a Danish-British co-production, which was supported by The Wapping Project Commissions with funding from Women's Playhouse Trust and Arts Council England. The executive producer was Gareth Evans. It was developed out of early collaboration with Vision Machine.
'Erase and Forget' first screened at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival where it was nominated for the Glashtte Original Documentary Award. It screened in October 2017 at the London Film Festival, played in UK cinemas from 2 March 2018 and was internationally screened on online viewing platform MUBI in July and August 2018.
Critical reaction
'The Financial Times' gave it 5 stars and wrote "the film is so loopy you end up like Laocon, wreathed by serpents of paradox and contradiction." 'Empire Magazine', 'Little White Lies', 'The Guardian', and 'Frieze', were some of the papers or magazines which connected the film to the presidency of Donald Trump and contemporary American politics, with 'Frieze' describing it as "a portrait of Gritz as a kind of cipher for evolving 20th century American ideologies" and 'Empire' describing it as a "disconcerting documentary, which also doubles as an insight into the American mindset that led to the election of Donald Trump". The film topped 'Sight & Sound'
There was some criticism around Gritz himself being a contentious character by the 'Times'
References
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