The Best of Me + Q&A

“Oddly enough, people get interested in a person like that. That would be the only reason why anyone would sit through dozens and dozens of hours of unedited home diaries.” – Ricardo López

In 1993, living in suburban Atlanta and working as an exterminator, young and alienated Ricardo López developed an all-consuming love for Icelandic experimental pop musician Björk. Over the next three years, López’s fixation would result in hundreds of diary entries, dozens of hours of home video footage, an assassination plot, and his eventual death by his own hand. Director Heather Landsman has crafted an eye-opening portrait of obsession taken to the edge.

Q&A with Heather Landsman following screening. Moderated by Esther Rosenfield.