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 In his Sundance Audience Award-winning film, director Tony Benna follows his friend André Ricciardi from cancer diagnosis to treatment as he ponders mortality, family, and at least one bad choice. Funny, sad, and uncomfortable in shifting proportions, the film is at once an urgent public service announcement and a memento mori documentary—not always pleasant to watch, but far more pleasant to watch than the subject matter suggests, since you wouldn’t normally think that “watching a snarky guy die” and “Sundance Audience Award winner” go hand in hand. Director: Tony Benna Star: André Ricciardi The “André” in question is André Ricciardi, a San Francisco man who begins the documentary by recounting an unfortunate tale of teenage masturbation that left him with splinters in his penis. “So far, that was probably the biggest mistake I’ve ever made,” he says. That honor has now been robbed from him by André’s failure to get a colonoscopy. Maintaining a “no cops, no doctors” policy, André...