Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King

“This Allan King collection... I'm Canadian so I thought I should put a Canadian in there... This whole collection is incredible... The one that really got me is A Married Couple which is so funny and so heartbreaking at the same time... You're watching this real thing which is this marriage disintegrating in front of a camera... It sort of like a Real Life Scenes from a Marriage in a way... You're watching them try and fail at putting the pieces back together.”

“This is the Actuality Dramas of Allan King. The one I've seen is A Married Couple, which is one of the most stunning documentaries I've ever seen in my life. It's 1969 and you're watching a couple basically get divorced. From an acting standpoint, getting to watch these events happen with people in a documentary, it is the bar. A great performance is a bar, but a higher bar is what do real people look like when everything's melting down around them?”

“Oh, Allan King, oh so important for me when I was a student in art school in Paris and I discovered Warrendale. The way he's doing that movie, I don't understand how we can do this when we get inside that place. Very special because it's like an arena, and the children don't want to wake up. The idea just of the first scene is so incredible. I watched Warrendale just before doing Anatomy and I showed some scenes to the child who is playing in my movie.”