That’s what veteran filmmaker Lynne Sachs learned with her latest documentary “Film About a Father Who,” which tells the story of her pioneering Utah businessman father, Ira.
“Legacy is at the forefront of study for Sachs, whose career has spanned the last three-and-a-half decades.” – Joel Copling
Lynne Sachs programming noted in DocNYC’s weekly newsletter.
“With thirty-five years of footage shot across varied formats and devices to cull through and piece together, the result becomes less about providing a clear picture of who this man is and more about understanding the cost of his actions.”
“Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.”
“This film is about a father who… is a different man for everyone who knows him…” – Sachs
Docs In Orbit revisits their conversation with Lynne Sachs on the occasion of her upcoming retrospective curated by Edo Choi at the Museum of Moving Image in New York.
“…, the portrait that Lynne Sachs pieces together grows increasingly intriguing, not just of her father, but of his generation, and, really, of the broader idea of family.”
“One of the most striking things about the movie is how it reveals the way in which all adult children feel forever small when contemplating the life experience of their parents: the brave or reckless choices, the beneficial and destructive outcomes, the redactions and blank spots, and the mysteries that will never be solved.”
“[A] brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait.” -New York Times
