Tarnation

A twisted pastiche of pain, suffering, and narcissistic indulgence.

There's no doubting the deep love Caouette feels for his troubled mother, nor his achievement in forging such a rawly emotional film from his own traumatic experiences.

A soul-baring scrapbook of a film, its audacity surpassed only by its tragedy.

Although aggressively unconventional, it's never pretentious.

Tarnation is one of the most powerfully emotional movies I've ever seen.

An original, personal, emotionally touching documentary, which represents a new type of indie, based on innovating filmmaking.

As performance art born of personal pain, "Tarnation" stares teary-eyed into how genetics, culture, environment and susceptibility conspire to trigger mental illness - a documentary more to be experienced than simply viewed.