The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is One of the Best Films of 2024, Plus An Interview With Director Benjamin Ree
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On the October 25, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson interviews Benjamin Ree, the director of the new Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today is Friday October 25th |
| 0:03.7 | 2024 on today's episode of the show I'm going to talk a little bit about the new |
| 0:07.6 | Netflix documentary The Remarkable Life of Ebelin and present an interview that I did |
| 0:12.0 | with that film's director Benjamin Rhee. |
| 0:14.4 | My name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slashfilm.com and I was a massive fan of |
| 0:18.4 | director Benjamin Ries previous documentary which was called The Painter and the thief came out back in |
| 0:23.0 | 2020 I believe that's streaming on canopy right now if you have a library card |
| 0:27.2 | that's linked up to that streaming service I would highly recommend checking that |
| 0:30.6 | out so I perked up when I learned that his newest movie would be playing at this year's Sundance Film. I'd of Ebelin tells the story of Max Steen, a Norwegian boy who is born with a muscular disorder that |
| 0:46.0 | ultimately kills him at the age of 25. Confined to a wheelchair and unable to participate in physical |
| 0:51.2 | activities like traditional sports, |
| 0:53.1 | Matt spends long hours immersed in World of Warcraft |
| 0:56.5 | on his computer, which his parents viewed |
| 0:58.6 | as something of a tragedy. |
| 1:00.1 | They wished that their son could have experienced love and meaningful friendships and heartbreak like they did growing up. |
| 1:06.2 | But when Matt's died, his family received a wave of messages from their son's online palace, |
| 1:11.1 | which opened his parents eyes to the rich emotion-filled digital |
| 1:14.7 | life that Matt's lived in a World of Warcraft community. |
| 1:19.1 | And while the first few minutes of this documentary are full of archival footage and sort of talking head |
| 1:23.8 | interviews with his family. The movie shifts to another level when it shows us |
| 1:28.1 | lengthy CG recreations of Max's interactions with his friends and lovers in the digital world. |
| 1:34.4 | The movie won the audience award and the directing award in the World Cinema documentary |
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