A quiet, slightly oddball documentary about old friends Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark attempting a joint project and derailing their relationship in the process, this film raises some interesting points (about creativity, responsibility, and self-knowledge) but doesn't pursue them, perhaps because they only emerge when the two men are apart and commenting on one another in absentia. Together they make an odd, uninspiring pair whose glory days of deep connection are long gone. I can't decide whether I'm intrigued or perplexed by the unanswered questions left in their wake, but there is definitely a sense of wanting more. It might just be the lingering after-effects of proximity to the troubled, troubling figure of Sam Shepard, who seems to be more than usually lost and uncertain, and in a strangely domesticated way at that.
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