For three decades, Montreal's Festival International du Film sur l'art has been showcasing some of the most extraordinary ideas ever to be put on celluloid. In recent years, the festival has included works on subjects as diverse as tattooing, mime, circus, and comics. As so often happens in the world of the documentary, truth can be much more surprising than fiction, and three of this year's
... [Show full abstract] offerings show us how film-makers for better or for worse usually can't help falling in love with their subjects.