2012 · documentary
Stories We Tell
Directed by Sarah Polley1h 49m2012
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
Our read: Stories We Tell (2012) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle documentary, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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