In a small apartment in a Delancey Street housing project, six brothers and one sister were raised in near total isolation from the rest of the world, thanks to an apparently megalomaniacal luftmensch of a father and a deeply passive mother. They were, however, allowed to watch thousands upon thousands of movies, which they can reenact in startling detail. Each sibling is reed-thin, with jet-black hair that hangs down around their respective waists.
All of this sounds like the makings of a fantastic documentary, which, incidentally, it was: The Angulo clan became the subject of The Wolfpack, which last week took home the Grand Jury prize for best U.S. documentary at Sundance.
The Angulos were rarely allowed outside, but it was during one of their rare forays into society that they met filmmaker Crystal Moselle, who spent the next several years getting to know the siblings and compiling snapshots of their cloistered lives, from which The Wolfpack was born. It looks like a fascinating film, based on Moselle's voluminous interviews, though frustratingly, there appear to be no clips available anywhere on the internet. WHY?! No theatrical trailers! No snippets?! Nothing. The Angulos, who along with their mother did travel to Sundance, appear uninterested in interviews, declining to speak to the Times last week.
Anyway, here's a recent interivew with Moselle, in which she describes all the scenes it'd be really great to see if the film is in fact picked up by distributors when the film is released by Magnolia.
(h/t Bowery Boogie)
