Should you watch Stories We Tell?
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Stories We Tell
Documentary · 2012
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 on 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.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Stories We Tell is good for you if…
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Stories We Tell is bad for you if…
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
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