Directed by:
Pierre BismuthScreenplay:
Pierre BismuthCinematography:
David RaedekerCast:
D.V. DeVincentis, Anthony Peckham, Mike White, Robert Knepper, Milo Ventimiglia, Richard Edson, Roger Guenveur Smith, Tania Raymonde, Stephen Tobolowsky (more)Plots(1)
In 1979, American artist Ed Ruscha allegedly made a fake rock out of resin and hid it among real ones somewhere in California's vast Mojave Desert. Named Rocky II after the Sylvester Stallone film, the work is never spoken about publicly nor is it listed in any catalogue of Ruscha's work. Obsessed with this mystery piece, Academy Award–winner Pierre Bismuth sets out to find it. It's clear from the outset of this fantastical tale that Bismuth, the writer for Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, won't take a conventional approach. Instead, he hires a hard-boiled private investigator and two acclaimed Hollywood screenwriters to pick up the trail in their separate and distinctive ways. Each constructs theories and deduces motives, muddying the few known facts with highly plausible and deeply engaging "fake fiction." Probing and inventive, this thoroughly original art quest is as enigmatic as the mystery it seeks. (Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival)
(more)Cast
D.V. DeVincentis
Best movies:
Blade (1998)
Touch and Go (1986)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Mike White
USA
Best movies:
School of Rock (2003)
The Good Girl (2002)
Brad's Status (2017)
Robert Knepper
USA
Best movies:
Cloclo (2012)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Prison Break: The Final Break (2009) (TV movie)
Milo Ventimiglia
USA
Best movies:
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016) (series)
Richard Edson
USA
Best movies:
Platoon (1986)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Roger Guenveur Smith
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Poetic Justice (1993)
Tania Raymonde
USA
Best movies:
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2009)
Chillerama (2011)
Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Stephen Tobolowsky
USA
Best movies:
Memento (2000)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Barry O'Rourke
Best movies:
Viva (2007)
The Ninth Cloud (2014)
Smartass (2017)
Philippe Vergne
France