Author: The JT LeRoy Story

— The weird story of a “gender fluid” author, JT LeRoy, whose troubled past and praised novels brought fame, acceptance, and celebrity friends until the world found out LeRoy was really a Brooklyn mother named Laura Albert who’d been posing as LeRoy’s manager. The method used to tell the story makes it more interesting now than I suspect it was when the truth came out in 2005. Albert becomes the narrator supported by taped phone conversations with various people who were part of her story (most notably Courtney Love), still photos, video, and pen-and-ink drawings. What emerges is a patchwork quilt of Albert’s life and stakes in one of the oddest literary hoaxes of the century. I thought the film was great fun but it was obvious some of the audience weren't quite as taken by it's quirky subject matter. (Shown at True/False Film Fest 2016.)

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[2016, 110 min., Written and directed by Jeff Feuerzeig. With Laura Albert, Bruce Benderson, and Dennis Cooper.]
http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/author-the-jt-leroy-story-review-sundance-1201687541/