True/False Films

And Everything is Going Fine

In person: producers Kathie Russo and Amy Hobby

Spalding Gray was a sui generis performer who mined the sometimes embarrassing, sometimes turbulent details of his life to construct comedic, self-reflective monologues that blurred the line between fiction and reality. In And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderbergh and editor Susan Littenberg deftly assemble countless appearances of their former colleague (with whom they worked on Gray's Anatomy) as he filtered the subjects of art, sex, family and mortality through his singular worldview. It builds to a portrait of a man who describes his art as deriving order from chaos. Achingly personal, this is a fond remembrance of a fallen comrade, someone who, with humorous insight and unrivaled self-knowledge, fended off life's cruel, random blows by exhibiting them publicly and in doing so related something more universally human. (KP)

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