SPECIAL LIVE REPORT: The Robbie Williams Biopic Where He's Played By A CGI Monkey

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's going to be a few more days before the regularly scheduled episode, so please enjoy this discussion that followed the Canadian Premiere of BETTER MAN, where Justin, Pierce Derks (Cinematographer), and Liane Cunje (Film Programmer) sat in front of Roy Thomspon Hall and discussed the bonkers Robbie Williams biopic, in which he's played by a CGI Monkey.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Clue. I'm live from the Toronto National Film Festival
0:04.2	24 and I'm here today with Pierce Sturks, cinematographer of a violent nature.
0:09.0	Leanne Kinjee.
0:10.6	Indisclothed, undisclosed for personal reason.
0:14.3	So we just saw a very special movie, a Better Man, the Robbie Williams biopic.
0:20.2	Now, me and you, Pierce, we got very excited about this.
0:22.6	Why do we get excited?
0:23.8	Because we heard ahead of time what the movie actually was.
0:27.6	Because so many people, before it sort of came out and played an telibule.
0:33.4	The sort of inclination was just a very generic biopic musical from the director of greatest showman
0:38.2	about the life and fame of a UK superstar.
0:43.3	Yeah, Robbie Williams.
0:44.7	Leanne, did you know who Robbie Williams was and did you like him?
0:48.2	Yes, yes.
0:49.0	I mean, rock DJ was like a huge hit in the early Notties, but then also I lived in the UK for a time.
0:54.4	Oh, so you were there.
0:56.1	It was just really all-encompassing.
0:59.1	Gary Barlow is like his arched nemesis that's also like the golden boy in the UK.
1:05.1	And so it was just, yeah, there was just so much.
1:08.9	He is the definition of a superstar.
1:12.5	Okay, so if I said, yeah, we had no idea what it was.
1:15.4	And we listened to some of his songs, and we were like, I have never heard
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