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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: A Visit with Truman Capote
Albert and David Maysles’ short documentary of Capote proves to be the ideal witness to his 1966 masquerade ball.
A pioneering work of nonfiction (and of the true crime genre that continues to define contemporary American popular culture), Capote’s explosive exploration of a brutal 1959 Kansas murder made him the toast of the town. But further enjoining Capote’s narrative ideals with the kind of documentary filmmaking the Maysles would come to be known for, Feud reminds us how groundbreaking their twinned approach to nonfiction storytelling — camera and pen alike became, in their hands, modes through which to see real life unfold without obstruction. It’s a pithy fact check, but one which could easily have been fixed had Ann and Capote opted to quote Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois instead, who’d but uttered those same words decades earlier: “Some things are not forgivable.
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