First Cousin Once Removed
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  • Summary: A distinguished poet, translator, critic and teacher, Edwin Honig wrote dozens of books and poems that attracted critical praise around the world. His seminal translations awakened English-speaking readers to previously overlooked literary giants, resulting in honorary knighthoods from the king of Spain and the president of Portugal. In First Cousin Once Removed, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner’s paints a deeply personal portrait of his “good friend, cousin and mentor” as Honig journeys through the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss. A stark reminder of the profound role memory plays in everyone’s life, this moving essay on the fragility of being human. [HBO Films]… Expand

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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Sep 20, 2013
    100
    Heartbreaking, haunting and unexpectedly heartening, First Cousin Once Removed is an uncommonly moving documentary portrait of a mind in disarray.
  2. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: Eric Kohn
    Sep 17, 2013
    100
    First Cousin Once Removed benefits from the clarity provided by Honig's published poetry, which surfaces in voiceover narration and words on the screen, rendering the undulations of his life in sweeping abstractions.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    Sep 17, 2013
    100
    A fascinatingly fractured glimpse into a disengaged mind and a biopic-in-reverse of its subject, quite unlike any documentary seen before.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Neil Young
    Sep 17, 2013
    90
    Berliner crafts a quietly touching and illuminating memento mori from the steady dying of an intellectual light.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    Sep 15, 2013
    80
    Mr. Berliner’s film bravely brings us to the edge of language and experience.

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