Stories We Tell Reviews
May 7, 2013
One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Sarah Polley completely turns the genre on its head.
momatduke
April 10, 2013
Loved it. I hope no one posts spoilers. It's important to live this story as it happens. The Canadian humor - bravo. I wanted a little more Sarah but other than that, I was deeply engrossed. Thank you Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham circa 2013.
February 23, 2013
Stories we tell 80% sur ROTTEN TOMATOES Et au cinema en France des le 27 mars.
January 4, 2013
The story how the famous actress and director found her father is a real tear jerker. But I was missing some crucial dialogs between the figures among themselves. All interviews are confrontational, no scene between the two men was filmed. This would have helped immensely as both are exceptional rational and loving folks.
December 1, 2012
This is a moving and intriguing film about the secrets a family keeps and how their revelations can have enormous impacts on everyone.
Banadoura
November 3, 2012
I was pretty disappointed in this film. The home movies and vertiginous camera work actually made me sick in the theatre. I found the movie to be very amateurish, much like a film school exercise. The movie character, Harry, succinctly summed it up by saying that Polley's use of everyone telling the story would leave the movie all over the place. Indeed it was. Also, the complete dispassion in places from Polley herself and some of the cast were a stark contrast to the emotional story. I found Polley's work self-indulgent and very tedious to watch to the end.
October 15, 2012
Easily the best documentary I've ever seen, and the closest thing to a perfect movie. It is beautiful and sad and funny and brutally honest, and watching it is emotionally exhausting the way that sex is physically exhausting. An absolute masterpiece.
October 14, 2012
This was the (italics) most boring 108 minutes of my life. Dull, repetitive, tedious and probably at least one hour too long. The crux of the matter was reached very early on and then after that Sarah Polley was pretty much flogging a dead horse. I was losing the will to live after the first hour. And what an awful way to portray your dead mother to the world!
