![]() They started revealing little stories to me, and then Mukunda told me he had escaped the house once in a Michael Myers mask. I didn’t know their background for the first year. When did you come to learn about the Angulos’ history? ![]() ![]() The Magnolia release opens Friday and expands beyond New York on June 19. Now, the whole story is documented in Moselle’s surprising documentary “ The Wolfpack,” which won the docu grand jury prize when it premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. That changed when she learned the brothers had lived virtually their entire lives locked inside a four-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side at the insistence of their paranoid father, who also kept their mother confined. “At first, I thought it would be this sweet little film about these kids making movies and figuring out how to get into the movie business,” Moselle says. What she didn’t know when she initially decided to make a documentary about the sensitive and intelligent young men was their dark secret. Moselle and the brothers bonded over their love of cinema, and she soon learned about their cache of home movies, in which they re-enact their favorite films with sets, props and costumes made from whatever was lying around - it turns out yoga mats make an effective Batman suit. Struck by their intriguing appearance, she chased them down the street, and introduced herself to what turned out to be the Angulo brothers, now ranging in age from 16 to 23. Five years ago, Crystal Moselle was walking down First Avenue in New York when six boys ran past her.
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