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1. narrativefirst.com › analysis › captain-fantasticCaptain Fantastic - Analysis - Narrative First

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   Captain Fantastic is fantastic storytelling that rests on a strong and competent story structure. Weaving Ben's personal refusal of his hand in the events of his wife's death with the refusal to accept the norms of society represents a masterstroke in narrative formation. By presenting the positive aspects of acceptance both from within and ...

2. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › carving-with-wordsCarving With Words: Matt Ross on “Captain Fantastic”

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   Jul 1, 2016 · Matt Ross will never forget the time he met Roger Ebert. It was after a screening of his directorial debut, “28 Hotel Rooms,” at the 2012 Sundance film Festival. As a lifelong fan of “Siskel & Ebert,” Ross was starstruck when the legendary critic approached him and said “lovely things” about his movie. “He then told me that ‘if ...

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     Captain Fantastic: A New Religion. Movie Analysis Review

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2016/07/19 › t-magazineEnlightening Books, and Why Viggo Mortensen Read Them

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   Jul 19, 2016 · Wilson Webb/Bleecker Street. By Nathan Reese. July 19, 2016. In the new film “Captain Fantastic,” Viggo Mortensen plays Ben, an off-the-grid patriarch raising his six children to be ...

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5. www.vulture.com › 2016 › 07The Many Joys and Questions of Captain Fantastic - Vulture

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   Jul 13, 2016 · The dramatic linchpin of Captain Fantastic is the loss of the kids’ mother, who leaves them for a psychiatric hospital (she’s bipolar) and, three months later, takes her life. (This isn’t ...

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6. www.newyorker.com › culture › richard-brodyThe Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic”

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   Aug 5, 2016 · “Captain Fantastic” is the story of a left-wing survivalist, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), martial and authoritarian yet soft-spoken and good-humored, who’s raising his six children (ranging ...

7. variety.com › 2016 › film'Captain Fantastic' Review: Viggo Mortensen as World's ...

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   Jan 24, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Captain Fantastic’. Viggo Mortensen gets the role he may well have been born to play, not as a superhero, but as a super-dad determined to raise his kids on his own terms. If ...

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   Is Captain Fantastic a good story?

   • Captain Fantastic is fantastic storytelling that rests on a strong and competent story structure. Weaving Ben's personal refusal of his hand in the events of his wife's death with the refusal to accept the norms of society represents a masterstroke in narrative formation.

   Captain Fantastic - Analysis - Narrative First

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   Is Ross' 'Captain Fantastic' a good film?

   • It will be impossible for audiences to have an indifferent opinion regarding Ross’ sophomore effort, “ Captain Fantastic,” a film that has earned major accolades—including the Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival—despite garnering extremely divided reactions from critics.

   Carving With Words: Matt Ross on “Captain Fantastic” - Roger Ebert

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   Does 'Captain Fantastic' reflect anti-establishment fervor?

   • The left and the right in America are now selling different versions of anti-establishment fervor, and “Captain Fantastic” doesn’t just reflect those two poles; it fuses them. It taps the topsy-turvy sympathies that now rule the political-cultural zeitgeist. The movie, however, isn’t necessarily out to do any of that.

   The Secret Appeal of ‘Captain Fantastic’: It’s Left ... - Variety

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   Does Jack have a point in Captain Fantastic?

   • Whether parent or child, practically anyone can relate to the tensions represented in “Captain Fantastic”: It can be hard to resist the urge to decide how someone else raises their kids — which is precisely Jack’s problem, though in many respects, he does have a point, even if the character himself feels like something of a cardboard villain.

   'Captain Fantastic' Review: Viggo Mortensen as World's ... - Variety

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   Who plays a left wing survivalist in 'Captain Fantastic'?

   • Richard Brody on the “Captain Fantastic,” written and directed by Matt Ross, in which Viggo Mortensen plays a left-wing survivalist raising six children.

   The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic”

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   Can you pass the time with a guitar in Captain Fantastic?

   • It turns out you can pass the time very nicely with a guitar and a collection of Woody Guthrie songs. The dramatic linchpin of Captain Fantastic is the loss of the kids’ mother, who leaves them for a psychiatric hospital (she’s bipolar) and, three months later, takes her life.

   The Many Joys and Questions of Captain Fantastic - Vulture

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9. variety.com › 2016 › filmThe Secret Appeal of 'Captain Fantastic': It's Left-Wing AND ...

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   Jul 14, 2016 · “Captain Fantastic,” starring Viggo Mortensen as a shaggy father of five who has raised his children off the grid, in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, is an independent movie that ...