Poet and the Con: Romantics at Heart of Stirring Documentary

Then right out of left field comes a series of unexpected, jarringly ironic developments that propels "The Poet and the Con" into a much deeper, far more harrowing film. In these later sequences, shot in color, Trules in effect has to ask his questions all over again, considering notions of family, morality, fate and mortality on a larger plane. If ever there was an instance of good coming out of evil, this film is it, for Trules, in a most caring, sensitive way, makes the most of a drastic turn of events to consider how love and anguish become inextricably intertwined within deeply felt family ties.