How about a documentary about a former beauty queen who fell in love with a strict Mormon, abducted him and tied him to a bed to have sex? It sounds like a good story and it certainly was in the Seventies when it broke. For nearly a year, Joyce McKinney and Kirk Anderson, though American, held the British tabloids in their thrall. Errol Morris's film tells the tale all over again.
Was Joyce an ex-call girl from LA who posed for nude photographs? Did Kirk suffer from so much religious guilt that he had to be tied up to achieve orgasm? All we know is that Joyce enjoyed her notoriety while cursing the lurid way the tabloid reporters went about their work.
The chief witness is Joyce herself, who maintains that Kirk was the love of her life and prevented only by his fellow Mormons from loving her right back. Morris suggests that you can sometimes find profundity in triviality - and though Joyce condemns herself out of her own mouth, it is always possible to feel sorry for a woman whose obsession has so totally ruled her life.
Tabloid
Cert: 15
