Voyeur

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Myles Kane directs. Cristobal Moris behind the camera. Joel Goodman scores. Myles Kane cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Released 9 years ago.
• 2Directed by Myles Kane, shot by Cristobal Moris. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 3Original score by Joel Goodman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 4Editor Myles Kane shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Gay Talese and Gerald Foos and Nan Talese carry the top of the cast.
• 6Marketing tagline: "What will you watch tonight?".
• 7IMDB entry: tt7588790 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography

Cristobal Moris

Original score

Joel Goodman

Editing

Myles Kane

Sound

Tom Paul

Runtime

95 min · 1h 35m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

R

IMDB

Voyeur (2017) ↗

Also by

Myles Kane

• 
  Journey to Planet X

  2012 · ★ 7.0
• 
  An Immortal Man

  2015 · ★ 7.0
• 
  I'll Be Gone in the Dark

  2020 · ★ 7.0
• 
  We Will Live Again

  2013
• 
  I Had a Dream

  2016

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Voyeur | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

  Trailer · Official
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  Voyeur | Clip: A Guest of the Voyeur | Netflix

  Clip · Official

Community reviews

What people are saying

• SierraKiloBravo2020-05-21
  ★ 4/10

  Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/zHv4OKXSf08 I've watched a lot of documentaries, and few have left me scratching my head as much as Voyeur. This is a Netflix Original Documentary that has been in the catalogue for a while. It's a bit of an odd one, and putting this review together has been hard nail down exactly what was so frustrating about it. Let's start with the official description: Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own. The core or catalyst for this is a man named Gerald Foos who bought a motel with the specific intention of engaging in his hobby of watching people. He purposely chose a motel that had a roof pitch high enough that he could install what he called an "observation platform" along the ceiling cavity to that he could shimmy along it and spy on the people in the rooms below through the air vents. Sounds a bit like some kind of horror movie doesn't it? It is, but the documentary barely spends any time on this aspect of the story, and I think this is where my frustration comes from. They never really address the fact that this guy was spying on people in their hotel rooms, every night, in their most intimate moments. It seems more interested in Foos as a character, and as a result the things he did are kinda swept aside like they were no big deal. There is little, if any discussion of the wrongness or immorality of what he did. So, far from being a documentary about this a-hole and what he did, it is instead more a documentary about how a journalist pulls together an article over a period of years. It seems unsure about exactly who the subject of it is. They voyeur of the title is definitely there all the way through, but this in the end felt like it was more about Talese. I didn't not know what to make of this once it was all over. It has its interesting parts, but I'm having a hard time recommending it.

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Impact Partners

  US

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  Brooklyn Underground Films

  US

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  Public Record

  US

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  Chicago Media Project

  US

Key crew

• Executive ProducerAdam Del Deo
• Executive ProducerDan Cogan
• Executive ProducerJeremiah Zagar
• Executive ProducerJulie Parker Benello
• ProducerTrisha Koury
• Executive ProducerLisa Nishimura
• Executive ProducerKen Pelletier
• EditorMyles Kane
• Executive ProducerGeralyn White Dreyfous
• EditorJosh Koury
• Executive ProducerAngus Wall
• Executive ProducerJeremy Yaches
• Executive ProducerLinda Carlson
• Executive ProducerJason Spingarn-Koff
• Co-Executive ProducerJenny Raskin
• Co-Executive ProducerPaula M. Froehle
• Co-Executive ProducerSteven H. Cohen
• Foley ArtistLeslie Bloome
• Foley MixerRyan Collison
• Foley EditorJoanna Fang
• Foley EditorNick Seaman
• Sound DesignerTom Paul
• Sound Re-Recording MixerTom Paul
• Supervising Dialogue EditorChris Stangroom

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2017-10-04R· New York Film Festival
• Digital2017-12-01R· Netflix