20 Most Critically Adored Films 2018 (According To Rotten Tomatoes)
6. Shirkers
Rating: 100%
Another documentary for the upper echelons of the year's releases, this enthralling film follow novelist Sandi Tan as she reveals the story of an independent film, called Shirkers, she made with friends in 1992 only for one of the group - film tacher Georges Cardona - to disappear with the completed film.
After his death, his wife contacted Tan to say she had footage of the film and this documentary is what Tan made rather than releasing the full film.
Sample Review:
"It sends you wondering at all the wild creativity and genius of young irrepressible women lost to time, held up or buried by the domineering egos of men." - Vulture