“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
“At the center of Sachs’s work is often Sachs herself: her body, her voice, her words. And with those come the subjects that preoccupy her: family, feminism, language, place, and being.” – Kat Sachs
“Film About a Father Who” Review by Gay City News
“In documentary work, it’s not just about seeing someone,” she says, “it’s how they see that can tell you just as much about them.”
