Entertaining 'behind-the-scenes' look at the making of an anti-classic

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2018)

"The Disaster Artist" is the film version of Mark Sestero's eponymous memoir about his experiences with eccentric auteur Tommy Wiseau while making "The Room" (2003), a romantic melodrama that is considered to be amongst the worst films ever made. The movie does an excellent job re-enacting some of the more iconic moments from "The Room" and the cast is uniformly excellent. To some extent, the film is an big in-joke, so watching "The Room" beforehand will provide context to the 'making of' film, BUT watching "The Room" afterwards (as I did) is more entertaining having seen 'behind-the-scenes' (and watching "The Room" twice may be beyond most people's capacity for self-abuse). Definitely a 'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' story, similar in some ways to Tim Burton's bio-pic of legendary bad-movie helmsman, Ed Wood.