Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
Direction
Polley interrogates the documentary form itself—who owns the story?
Editing
Revelations recontextualize everything you thought you knew
Writing
Michael Polley's narration: a father processing his wife's secrets in real time
Director
Sarah Polley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's structure mirrors memory itself: Polley shot interviews first, then commissioned Super 8 recreations later, literally constructing false memories to explore how we visualize what we didn't witness.
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