trailer break: ‘I’m Still Here’

Haven't heard any of the backstory - a link would be nice - but after the recent batch supernatural "true stories" I don't think there can be a filmgoer in the English-speaking world who believes that an actor is anything but an actor.

This is not intended as an insult.

I had no idea one could grow such a sweet, unbroken mustache over a harelip scar.

As an admirer of Phoenix's acting, I sure hope the whole thing is an elaborate pice of performance art and he'll be back brooding sexily on screen again soon.

I'd read that Phoenix does not have a (repaired) harelip, although it certainly seems like he does. Maybe the well-grown mustache means he doesn't have one. (An unfortunate accident, like Harrison Ford's chin scar?)

I don't know what to believe as to his current activities. I'd like to think it is performance art. Either way, UK Guardian has a pretty damning article on him as a not-so-good actor, even-worse musician.