Antonio Campos’ Christine takes the rather direct approach of the biopic, casting Rebecca Hall in the role; with Robert Greene’s documentary Kate Plays Christine tackling something quite different.
Dual films competed which dealt with a dark entry into American television history: the suicide of news anchor Christine Chubbuck live on air, broadcast to thousands of viewers in 1974.
Kate Plays Christine hits UK cinemas 14 October.
This year’s Sundance festival marked one of those strange cinematic coincidences; the vibrations in air colluding to spark the same idea in two different minds.