The Devil and Daniel Johnston
An intimate, melancholic portrait of a troubled musical genius wrestling with mental illness and self-destruction, grounded in genuine affection despite the darkness.
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.
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