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By Chloe Schama (8) for Vogue (149) on 28 Jun 2017

The film is tinged with a sense of fragility -- the luckiness of the shot, the delicate nature of the prints, the high probability that someone…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jun 2017

The B-Side feels a tad overextended—but it’s a pleasure to see a warm, creative, and not even remotely evasive individual in front of his…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Jun 2017

It would be inaccurate to say The B-Side only scratches the surface of Dorfman, but this lovely portrait takes pains to adopt her mindset,…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 25 Jun 2017

The depth of her art reflects a life richly lived, as does the wisdom of her epigrammatic musings…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 23 Jun 2017

The B-Side is on the dull side given that it's largely a one-hander but its central character does give the audience insight into how a photographer…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 22 Jun 2017

If this doc is sometimes elegiac in tone, there is nothing mournful about it…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jun 2017

She also ended up with a stash of that Polaroid product, but now that it's almost gone, Dorfman herself ends up a scratchy B-side of the lapsed…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 21 Jun 2017

Her stories are great, especially the one about Dorfman gate-crashing Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975…

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By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 May 2017

Dorfman declares that she was never a media or critics’ darling…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 May 2017

Errol Morris films Dorfman and her work with a rapt attentiveness that maps the nostalgic and regretful stirrings of her soul…

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By Matt Brennan (26) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 May 2017

Errol Morris films Dorfman and her work with a rapt attentiveness that maps the nostalgic and regretful stirrings of her soul…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 Apr 2017

Not only is it an affectionate and personal film – the subject, Elsa Dorfman, is a long-standing friend and Morris’s emotional investment…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 20 Apr 2017

It’s an endlessly charming film focused on a woman whose view of life is one to be envied…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 13 Oct 2016

After seeing so many B-Side photos, the portraits with slight flaws in them that Dorfman keeps, they all start to blur together, which does…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

It's a film with much to say, about the shifting winds of technology, the challenges of art that stands the tests of time, and how we choose…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2016

Short-circuiting any self-seriousness and using food metaphors to explain her theories of art, Dorfman gives The B-Side life and energy…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Sep 2016

This portrait of the artist as an old woman is a gentle-hearted gem, as profoundly subtle as it is subtly profound…

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