Award winning director uses vintage and new home movies to support a monologue about relationships with his 21-yr-old son
Award winning director uses vintage and new home movies to support a monologue about relationships with his 21-yr-old son and his own life at that age
This is the ninth documentary film from director Ross McElwee - the best-known one is "Sherman's March" - and was produced in 2011 with a theatrical release in 2012. Like the others I've seen , McElwee narrates the film with his low-key, easy going voice.
This film is both a self-examination of his life as well as his trying to explain, and understand (to both the viewer and himself) the relationship between he and his (now 21-year-old) son, Adrian. McElwee's daughter appears early on - and his wife is never seen - but it is Adrian that McElwee is trying to understand. Using early home movies showing how father and son would work on making films with a camcorder, and bringing us up to date with Adrian's total immersion in things digital and the social networks - not to mention his use of "recreational drugs", McElwee...
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