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  • 2021
  • The Cinema Guild
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Film About a Father Who

Summary Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings...

Directed By: Lynne Sachs

Written By: Lynne Sachs

  • 2021
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2021
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 14 m

Film About a Father Who

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings...

Directed By: Lynne Sachs

Written By: Lynne Sachs

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Jan 19, 2021
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.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 15, 2021
The result is a sharply assembled multiformat collage of memory and investigation that starts like a trip any of us might make into a what-made-him-tick past, but ends in the present with scattered feelings and tenuous bonds.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 14, 2021
[A] brisk, prismatic and richly psychodramatic family portrait.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
78
Jan 19, 2021
Jagged and disorderly, confounding and charming and sometimes irritating — just like the man at its center.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 10, 2021
Throughout, Lynne Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
67
Feb 11, 2021
Sachs’ downward spiral into her father’s personal life has been in the works for roughly 26 years, with footage collected from 1984 to 2019. By using a mixture of 8mm film to pristine digital, her experimental documentary feels worn, an eclectic mixture of home videos that blends in with the film’s familial nature.
By Jenny Nulf FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Jan 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 14 m
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Website http://www.FilmAboutAFatherWho.com/
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Awards

Indie Memphis Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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