Alex Gibney's Musk Documentary Was Built for Festivals Before It Was Built for a Trailer

Bleecker Street has released a trailer for “Musk,” Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk. Variety reports the film premiered out of competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 8, drawing a four-minute standing ovation, and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. A trailer is just a marketing beat; the festival itinerary is the credential, and the ovation number is the kind of detail that gets quoted in every subsequent piece of coverage whether or not it predicts anything.