Photograph
courtesy La Biennale
Venice: Film Festival – Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley. In this
inspired, genre-twisting Canadian film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah
Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both
filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of
storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of
varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory,
answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family
mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of a
lively, fun-loving past and the shadows just beneath. Polley unravels the
paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: a complex, messy, intense and deeply
loving tangle of contradictions.
Above. Director Sarah Polley.
Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley
