reviews of stories we tell

Families create their own narratives. Stories are passed on from generation to generation, and in this way the past continues to live, but it can also be obscured or distorted. Joan Didion famously wrote, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Family arguments often come down to who "owns" the narrative, or which version is decided upon as the "true" one. Sarah Polley's fascinating ...

Stories We Tell is fascinating throughout and forces one to examine their own family history. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member ...

Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell is two or maybe three dangerous kinds of movies all at the same time, and handled so brilliantly that the result is a transformative, unforgettable work of art. ... We recap the just-concluded festival with a list of award winners and review summaries for dozens of films making their world premieres in Cannes ...

Unfortunately, Stories We Tell lacks the historical sense, in keeping with most contemporary movies, that could have made it far more compelling. Full Review | Feb 27, 2021.

Stories We Tell is a 2012 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Sarah Polley and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film explores her family's secrets—including one intimately related to Polley's own identity. Stories We Tell premiered August 29, 2012 at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, then played at the 39th Telluride Film Festival and the 37th ...

May 16, 2013 4:53 PM PT. Don't be fooled by its deceptively simple title or the hesitant, unassuming way it begins. Writer-director Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell" ends up an invigorating ...

Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell is an exquisite, elegant rebuke to the standards that define so many of our most popular filmic narratives: three-act structures that begin with an inciting incident and move, breathlessly, to a cathartic climax; a lovable protagonist with an easily graspable character arc; endings that confirm the universe as a place

Stories We Tell Movie Review. Stories We Tell, the third feature directed by Sarah Polley ( Away From Her ), takes the proposition that reality is more dramatic than fiction and tests it out in a ...

Stories We Tell: Directed by Sarah Polley. With Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John Buchan. A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

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Sarah Polley begins her documentary, " Stories We Tell ," with an epigram from Canadian author Margaret Atwood. But this rich, sensitive, densely layered piece of poetic nonfiction also conjures a ...

Directed by Sarah Polley. Documentary. PG-13. 1h 48m. By Manohla Dargis. May 9, 2013. For many of us, I suspect, our first sense of the past begins with the simple childhood request for a story ...

Stories We Tell. At TIFF 2012, Matt reviews Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, a documentary about her father, her mother, and her biological father.

Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (Venice Days), Aug. 29, 2012. Running time: 108 MIN. With: With: Michael Polley, Sarah Polley, Mark Polley, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Harry Gulkin, Geoff Bowes ...

As if adapting a family photo album into a humane Rashomon-esque documentary, Sarah Polley's multi-faceted and confrontational Stories We Tell lays out the complex history of her family makeup and investigates the seeds of her own existence. Inward-looking, and yet eschewing narcissism, Polley constructs the mostly Toronto-based narrative via inherently nostalgic Super 8 footage ...

Produced in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, Canadian director Sarah Polley's documentary Stories We Tell is a tender and often moving inquiry into the life of her mother Diana who died in 1990 from cancer when Sarah was only eleven years old. Her investigation, consisting of interviews with her Toronto family members aided by Super-8 home movies (60% of which are ...

Film Review: 'Stories We Tell' Patrick Gamble / Reviews. by CineVue ★★★★☆ "When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all". This is the line that introduces Canadian Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (2012), a deeply personal yet shrewdly alluring examination of the art of storytelling. Thrusting her own ...

About Amber Topping Amber works as a writer and digital publisher full-time and fell in love with stories and imagination at an early age. She has a Humanities and Film Degree from BYU, co-created The Silver Petticoat Review, contributed as a writer to various magazines, and has an MS in Publishing from Pace University, where she received the Publishing Award of Excellence and wrote her thesis ...

One of the documentary's central conceits is that we all have our stories, and they often differ, even when we're talking about the same thing. We all have our perspectives and things get mangled in the telling. They get mangled by being processed through us. This is hardly news. But the story of Sarah and her family is news—for most of us.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story. —The National Film Board of Canada

Stories We Tell Review. by David Braga. May 23, 2013 May 23rd, 2013. rating: 5. For Jean Luc-Godard, cinema is the truth. For Michael Haneke, it is a lie in service of the truth. For Sarah Polley ...

Family secrets are on the table in Stories We Tell. Polley's own family. And she puts them all on camera, with her father, Michael, also serving as narrator. One crucial exception is Polley's ...

Sat 29 Jun 2013 19.06 EDT. Watch the trailer for Stories We Tell Artificial Eye. Sarah Polley 's slippery investigation of her uncertain family history and personal lineage is predicated on the ...

Matt Singer ★★★★★ 1. This movie was even more beautifully sad than watching a guy on the subway ride home eat an entire Papa John's pizza by himself. And let me tell you my friends, that was a mighty sad sight (he was using the dipping sauce -- or at least that's how I remember it). Laura ★★★★★ 3. cried (and cried and cried ...

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