A brief break from our week of IFFBoston coverage to share a bit of infelicitous [and worse still, perhaps intentionally so] press prose about a film I missed at the festival [because it played opposite Winter's Bone and I knew it comes out June 11]: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. See if you can pick out the turn of phrase that made me giggle:
SYNOPSIS
JOAN RIVERS - A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT) expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty.
