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Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman

Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 4

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Nearly two decades after her Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Beirut: The Last Home Movie, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox delivered this intensely personal six-hour film. Jumping off from her own life experiences, Fox broadens her scope to all women, exploring topics ranging from career to motherhood to monogamy. Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman premiered at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Nov 11, 2008

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It takes tremendous courage to expose one's life to the camera as Fox does here, and while she answers few of the universal (to women, anyway) questions she raises, at least she's asking them.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comments (2)
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There are times when Fox's nervy endeavor to combine art and life obliges one to give way to the other, but her efforts and reflections throughout are riveting.

March 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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Despite [director] Fox's excruciating level of self-involvement, she manages, more than once, to lay bare critical questions that are at once familiar and compelling.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
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As maddening and sometimes embarrassing as her approach is, it works.

September 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
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How would you like to be stuck in a dark room for hour upon hour listening to a neurotic middle-aged woman complain about her love life?

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post
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Fox is breaking new ground in terms of personal documentary, turning a navel-gazing survey of her own midlife crisis into a globalized, collaboratively created exploration of 'this new female life'...

July 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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Using her personal quest for a meaningful relationship and a family as an ongoing point of reference, Jennifer Fox delves into the complex subject of what women around the world want from their lives and loves.

June 27, 2009 Full Review Source: About.com
About.com

A real-life cross of Annie Hall and Erica Jong.

May 16, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Goodby rebel lifestyle, free love and recreational hot sex, hello conventional midlife crisis.

May 15, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Goodby rebel lifestyle, free love and recreational hot sex, hello conventional midlife crisis.

May 15, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Over the six hours spent with Fox as she jets around the globe, a picture emerges, not only of a modern woman contemplating herself, but of Western society boasting of its freedom to a world struggling for mere survival.

April 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

I'd mark how effective Flying is by the fact that I'm under no obligation to watch the rest of the series, but I'm eager to do so.

March 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times
Contra Costa Times

Seinfeld on estrogen... if Seinfeld had dared to be about something...

January 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher
Flick Filosopher

What keeps the film interesting, though, is not Fox's "torn between two lovers" shtick, but her encounters with various other women.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews
Murphy's Movie Reviews

In the end this very personal journey becomes a valuable universal document from which we can all learn about the way women live today.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Flying falls short of being an extraordinary film, but remains a dignified and absorbing chronicle.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Audience Reviews for Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman

Painful....oh the pain!!! This doc was so bad that I registered here just to warn others. I'm pretty forgiving, too. I don't usually mind a bad movie. Experience. I know not to watch it again. A more apt title for this film would be "Flying: Confessions of a Self Important Whiner." With the most obnoxiously nasal voice-overs of all time, Jennifer Fox opens with a chronical of her asking friends of various cultural backgrounds, which she stresses absurdly (ex: "So I went to visit my [i]Egyptian[/i] friend..."), to sympathize and absolve her when her married lover's wife finds out about them. The powerful irony is that she doesn't seem to recognize, at any point (and it was a long hour), her role in the victimization of another woman, though at one point she acknowledges that the affair did complicate [i]her[/i] life. I mean, it's so inconvenient, right? Then she embarks on efforts to have a baby, made difficult by some unseen and wise force. Finally, her grandmother dies, and she moves into a new place within her family. She is seen shopping for hideous hats with her mother and aunt, marveling in the same nasal, maybe-a-little-slow voice-over that perhaps she has finally grown up. There was absolutely no value for anyone but her in this shameful display of what she appears to believe is her own forward thought on modern femininty.
July 19, 2008
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