Based on Jacques Offenbach's opera, The Tales of Hoffmann takes viewers through three fantastical stories, regaled to us by narrator E.T.A. Hoffman who revisits the tales of his three loves; Olympia, an animated doll, Giuletta the Venetian courtesan, and Antonia, a singer's daughter hidden away from the world.
Presenting hypothetical events in hyperrealistic documentary style, Gabriel Range's film portrays a United States thrown into chaos by the assassination of its 43rd President. Combining real footage with hauntingly realistic (yet scripted) 'interview' segments, Death of a President analyses the f...