Werner Herzog on Family Romance LLC and The Mandalorian
Given thatWerner Herzogunveiled two documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival,Meeting Gorbachev(co-directed by Andre Singer, it released on May 3) andNomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, you might naturally assume thatFamilyRomance, LLCwas a doc too. The film certainly has documentary elements. Shot in Japanese and with a Japanese cast, the film focuses on a thriving Japanese company that hires actors to pose as friends and family members. The story follows a man (played by Yuichi Ishii, the company’s actual founder) who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12 year-old girl....