For many years now the song Tarnation by Max Avery Lichtenstein has been my ultimate study/cry-your-eyes-out song. It's just one of those songs you'll always come back to.
My connection with this song inspired me to watch the film Tarnation, of which the song is it's soundtrack.
Tarnation is a self-made documentary biography of director Jonathan Caouette and his life. We are transported through the film like a timeline, with lots of footage from Caouette's childhood and adolescence forming the basis for the more recent clips and photos.
What really drives the story and helps us understand Caouette is the focus on his schizophrenic mother, Renee. After falling pregnant with Jonathan, Renee the teenage model and flower-child drug addict, started losing her sanity. This honest representation of Renee creates understanding for Caouette's own emotional struggles, the influence she had on him and the lack of influence from his stray father.
A very heartfelt, emotional film. Not for the easily disturbed, but highly recommended.
8/10
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