'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets' starts off as a portrait of a dive bar's final hours—then it gets cockeyed, complicated and even more compelling. Our four-star review
at face value, you want to stop reading right about now. It won’t make the experience of watching it any less rich, or keep anyone who’s logged hours among such drunkards and misfits from feeling a shudder of recognition. But as the Ross brothers, their doc on the last hours of Roaring 20 isn’t technically a doc. Their Vegas bar is located in New Orleans, where they live; they took over the space and set-dressed it to their specifications.
nonfiction lines from being blurred in this, our age of Reality TV presidents and genuinely fake news? Or were those lines already fuzzier than a rummy’s vision way before 2020, and the point, being older than Nanook’s igloos, is long past moot?falls on the spectrum — or why Sundance relegated it to the doc competition’s section, and doc-centric fests have played it — that you might miss what the Ross brothers have succeeded in doing.
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