Tabloid

Sun 02 Sep 2012, 9:30pm

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Academy Award-winner Errol Morris follows the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe and directly onto the front pages.

Equal parts love story, film noir, brainy B-grade movie and demented fairy tale

Joyce’s crusadefor love and personal vindication takes her through asurreal world of gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons, oddball accomplices,bondage modeling, magic underwear and dreams of celestial unions.

Tabloid is a delirious meditation on hysteria – both public and personal – froma filmmaker who continues to break down and blow open the documentarygenre with his penetrating portraits of eccentric and profoundly complexcharacters. In Tabloid, Morris concocts another jaw-dropping portrayal, thistime of a phenomenally driven woman whose romantic obsessions and delusionscatapult her over the edge into scandal-sheet notoriety and an unimaginable life.Long before the days of Lindsay, Britney and the 24-hour news cycle, JoyceMcKinney reigned as the ensnaring femme fatale accused of sexual defiance. In Tabloid, she is back, and Morris offers up his best guilty treasure.

Read the SBS Film review of Tabloid here.