Film About a Father Who

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Film About a Father Who

Released Jan 15, 2021

1h 14m

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Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16 mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. With this footage, she explores the relationship between parent and child.

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Jenny Nulf

Austin Chronicle

Film About a Father Who is not meant to give Sachs answers to her labyrinth of affection toward her father, but rather used to understand the man from whom she seeks so much approval.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 18, 2021

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

The movie is always fascinating, even when it seems to lose or drop the threads of therapeutic/psychological understanding woven throughout the project.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 18, 2021

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

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.

Jan 16, 2021

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

A portrait of a father that ends up looking like no portrait at all.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 29, 2021

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Nicholas Yap

In Review Online

Film About A Father Who lurches forwards slowly but surely, a study of those who wander, wounded and lost, finding solace in the company of other stragglers.

Jun 5, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Compromised largely of home movies covering decades, Film About a Father Who is a semi-experimental collage documentary that asks the question "How can you love people you don't know?"

Feb 12, 2021

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Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16 mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. With this footage, she explores the relationship between parent and child.

Director: Lynne Sachs
Screenwriter: Lynne Sachs
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 15, 2021, Limited
Runtime: 1h 14m

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