Semi-documentary/semi-fiction: an examination of genre in 'Strangers in Good Company.'

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The National Film Board of Canada's semi-documentary 'Strangers in Good Company' is an interesting combination of autobiography and fiction that captures the realities of being old. The movie focuses on seven older women and a younger woman bus driver as they wait in the woods after being stranded there. The movie was scripted after the actors were assembled because the movie was intended to incorporate real life experiences of the women. In moving between reality and fiction, this semi-documentary successfully explores the core experiences of being older women.

Strangers in Good Company (Motion picture)

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Interpreting reality: Los olvidados and the documentary mode

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The study concerns those elements in the film, Los olvidados that align it with documentary practice and gives equal weight to Luis Bunuel's presentation of the film and contemporary reviews in the press, both of which stressed the film's serious social purpose and thereby reinforced an interpretation of the work as nonfiction. Bunuel's conception of the documentary was heavily influenced by his experience of surrealism and of communism.

United States, Los olvidados (Motion picture)

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