Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on March 05, 2005 at 09:56:17

Louis Kahn, generally considered to be the most important American (or, for that matter, from any country) architect of the second half of the 20th century.
It seems Mr. Kahn kept three families at the same time, with children in all of them.
The film is by his only son, a bastard (self-described).
Anyhow, if you have even a passing interest in architecture, you will enjoy this film.
However, the writer/director, Nathaniel Kahn, is a nasty piece of work (doubly a bastard, if you will). He savages his mother in an interview and spends much of the film in a kind of lugubrious self-pity which, seeing as he's a grown man, is annoying.
More Louis, less Nathaniel would have been a better film for me but then it may have appealed mostly to architects.
The sights of the few buildings completed by Kahn are, to use a word overused in the extreme but very aptly applied here, awesome.