To great effect, Brugger's film combines all the conspiratorial weirdness of Oliver Stone’s JFK with the documentarian's gonzo-journalism shenanigans.
The shovels would come in handy – when rabbit holes turn up nothing, the inimitable Brugger is happy to dig more of his own. The documentary follows Brugger and Goran Bjorkdahl as they dig up details on the mysterious death of UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold in a 1961 plane crash in Africa.The documentary is a gas, with all the conspiracy-theory weirdness of Oliver Stone’sbut with the added attraction of Brugger’s gonzo-journalism shenanigans.
Maybe it’s real or maybe it’s wackadoodle, but a cold-case investigation is heated up considerably and imaginatively by Brugger’s charismatic film.Story continues below advertisement
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