Some of you may have already heard of Tarnation, Jonathan Caouette's grim documentary about his own family, which was constructed from old home movies and answering machine messages, put together on iMovie for about $213.72, and caused a sensation at the Cannes film festival. I was already looking forward to this movie before I read this:

As each tragic detail is revealed, Caouette's film plunges you deeper into its enchanted looking-glass world where life's horror is felt full force. But Tarnation hits as many emotional highs as you'd hope for from a real life. Particularly brilliant are details like Caouette's hilarious staging of David Lynch's Blue Velvet as a musical for a high-school project. As chubby girls dance clumsily to the haunting notes of Julee Cruise's song, "Floating," their adolescent awkwardness is transformed by Caouette's use of trippy music video effects. They almost look cool.

Yikes. This sounds amazing.