Love & Stuff

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Love & Stuff

2020

1h 20m

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Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother have a "good death" in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter. Told in the first person, in deep consultation with the past -- as in 25 years of family footage -- LOVE & STUFF explores the transformative power of parenting, our complex and very emotional attachment to stuff, and what it is we really need to leave our children.

Leslie Felperin

Hollywood Reporter

Honest and revealing, but not in an icky solipsistic way...

Dec 18, 2020

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Helfand's emotionally intimate documentary of motherhood over 25 years of her living, dying, and dead mother, with her related ABSOLUTELY NO SPITTING short around adoption.

Rated: 7/10

Mar 20, 2021

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

"Love and Stuff" gradually evolves into a celebration of the breadcrumbs we leave behind for future generations...

Jun 16, 2020

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Carey-Ann Pawsey

Orca Sound

A documentary filmmaker becomes the subject of examination in her own film. Judith Helfand documents her own life in telling the tale of her relationship with her mother and her eventual death.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 1, 2020

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Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother have a "good death" in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter. Told in the first person, in deep consultation with the past -- as in 25 years of family footage -- LOVE & STUFF explores the transformative power of parenting, our complex and very emotional attachment to stuff, and what it is we really need to leave our children.

Director: Judith Helfand
Producer: Judith Helfand, Hilla Medalia, Julie Parker Benello
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 20m