My Psychedelic Love Story

When Joanna Harcourt-Smith met Timothy Leary in 1972, he was hiding from the law. The former faculty member at Harvard was set to serve ten years in prison for committing drug offenses when Joanna, a woman half his age, became his mistress and accomplice. After living several months on the run, the man credited to popularizing psychedelics was finally caught and detained at an airport in Afghanistan. Joanna campaigned for three and a half years to free Timothy. Errol Morris relies on her narration for this colourful reconstruction of a very surreal story. Over time, however, it's uncertain whether she was a character in a romance novel or a conspiracy thriller, and whether her actions were influenced only by LSD or also by the CIA. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)