Raul The Terrible


Raul The Terrible is a 2006 Australian documentary film created by David Bradbury. It is a study of Raúl Castells. Bradbury and his team had close access to him for a period of three months and then filmed for a second period when Castells was engaged in a hunger strike.
It was Ettinger-Epstein debut film and stemmed from a chance meeting at the Matthew Talbot refuge in Woolloomooloo after which she saw his photographs.

Reception

Doug Anderson of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote "Not terribly well compiled but worthy as all get-out" Newcastle Herald's Kylie Cooper says in her capsule review "this warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change his world, provides an insight into the politics of poverty in twenty-first century Argentina." Also with a capsule review the Age's Paul Kalina said "Veteran Australia filmmaker David Bradbury casts a wryly humorous eye on Argentine dissident Raul Castells in this warts-and-all portrait of a flawed revolutionary and once affluent nation in economic ruins."

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