Film About a Father Who

Name: Film About a Father Who
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 15, 2021
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Adam Sachs, Dana Sachs, Evan Sachs, Ira Sachs, Ira Sachs Sr.

2021

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The Cinema Guild | Release Date (Streaming): January 15, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Adam Sachs, Dana Sachs, Evan Sachs, Ira Sachs, Ira Sachs Sr., Julia Buchwald-Sachs, Lynne Sachs

Summary: Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. With this meditation on fatherhood and masculinity, Sachs allows herself and her audience to see beneath the surface of the skin, beyond the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal. … Expand

Director: Lynne Sachs

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Jan 19, 2021

One of the most striking things about the movie is how it reveals the way in which all adult children feel forever small when contemplating the life experience of their parents: the brave or reckless choices, the beneficial and destructive outcomes, the redactions and blank spots, and the mysteries that will never be solved. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 14, 2021

[A] brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 15, 2021

The result is a sharply assembled multiformat collage of memory and investigation that starts like a trip any of us might make into a what-made-him-tick past, but ends in the present with scattered feelings and tenuous bonds. Read full review

Steve Pond

Jan 19, 2021

Jagged and disorderly, confounding and charming and sometimes irritating — just like the man at its center. Read full review

Pat Brown

Jan 10, 2021

Throughout, Lynne Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Feb 11, 2021

Sachs’ downward spiral into her father’s personal life has been in the works for roughly 26 years, with footage collected from 1984 to 2019. By using a mixture of 8mm film to pristine digital, her experimental documentary feels worn, an eclectic mixture of home videos that blends in with the film’s familial nature. Read full review

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