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- 2006
- Unrated
- Upstate Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- Unrated
- Upstate Films
- 1 h 27 m
Summary Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. (Shadow Distribution)
- 2006
- Unrated
- Upstate Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2006
- Unrated
- Upstate Films
- 1 h 27 m
Following Sean
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Summary Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. (Shadow Distribution)
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
64
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
What promises to be a standard postmortem on 60s ideology becomes a thoughtful essay on the choices we all make between work, family, and personal freedom.
If Arlyck's own life feels unworthy of the attention, Sean's illuminating, unconventional and contemporary story makes up for it.
What emerges from Arlyck's musings is a penetrating cinematic essay on how generations in the last century struggled to take hold of history and reconfigure the shape of daily life.
What emerges is a liberal meditation on freedom and compromise, and a nostalgia trip graced by eloquent restraint.
You won't be disappointed, and you will be deeply, quietly moved.
If ''Sean" was about conviction and revolution, Following Sean is about ambivalence and resignation. In either case it's pretty easy for a funny-provocative kid to stand out.
Arlyck spends more time following himself and his own lefty family than checking up on Sean.
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Production Company
Timed Exposures
Release Date Jan 13, 2006
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
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Website
http://www.followingsean.com/
Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination
