Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim’s first fiction feature Primetime —premiering here at the Venice Film Festival—fills in some background pixels on the show’s rise and fall, focusing particularly on an ambitious, egotistical, and at least somewhat delusional Hansen, played by Robert Pattinson. It’s 2006, and Hansen and his beleaguered producer Andie (Merritt Wever, bringing an edgy nervousness to the role of a woman struggling to stay afloat in the ruthless world of TV news) get a chance to move their show into a primetime slot. The stakes are high, but the potential rewards are great. Hansen’s hubris balloons, and he infects others with…
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