Film Review – Author: The JT LeRoy Story

“Author: The JT LeRoy Story” is a difficult nut to crack. It’s a documentary that doesn’t document anything, instead serving as an opportunity for writer Laura Albert to clarify her intentions when she willfully committed fraud to achieve literary success, generating a persona to help project the authenticity she didn’t necessarily have. She’s a practiced liar, and director Jeff Feuerzeig never bothers to confront her destructive impulses, creating a celebration of deception and the cheap high Albert enjoyed as she played puppet master from 1995-2005. It’s difficult to understand who “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” is for, with fans of LeRoy likely to be disgusted with a front row seat to Albert’s unrepentant opportunism, while newcomers might be bewildered that Feuerzeig felt the need to devote an entire feature to a woman who clearly can’t be trusted to tell the story of her own life. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com