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The 10 Most Memorable Documentary Characters Of All Time

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Christopher Campbell
May 08, 2014
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I am mostly against the critical valuation of real people in documentaries. I’ve written about this in the past, specifically in response to the reviews of The Imposter that judged subject Frederic Bourdin more than the film itself. I also wondered last fall whether it was okay to highlight the “best” characters of a given year in the form of the Cinema…

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