The first half — a lengthy and meticulous look at the post-apocalyptic country of Panem, of its institutions and its contrasts — is actually the most engaging and dramatic part of the movie, a sort of sociological documentary about a fictional society.
Gorin films them with a warmhearted and good-humored involvement that brings him into their family and makes the film a sort of personal documentary as well — he had recently arrived in California from France and was confronting, he says, linguistic issues of his own.
The couple further explored the origin of religious conflicts with the 1993 work The Cave, a sort of musical documentary.
The story in Wimbledon Green was a hilarious adventure story about the world's greatest comic-book collector told in a sort of fake documentary style like Woody Allen might do.
Another of his projects which revealed his mischievous side was his sort-of-documentary F for Fake (1973), which focuses on the story of art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer Clifford Irving, who was himself partial to creating fake works, notably a biography of Howard Hughes.
