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The format of the film, as with the original shorts, is semidocumentary; Camp appears on-screen, and as an off-camera voice, interviewing Marcel and capturing off-the-cuff images of the shell’s daily life.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022

Also on my list was the semidocumentary Varda by Agnès, the final film of the late French master Agnès Varda, which like much of her work sits somewhere on the line between fiction and nonfiction.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2019

He often worked in a semidocumentary style, and used nonprofessional actors, from whom he coaxed extraordinary performances.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2016

One of my personal interests in Heti’s semidocumentary novel about a group of very appealing artist types in Toronto is that Heti’s Misha used to be my Misha.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2012

Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary.

From Time Magazine Archive