Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her.
Direction
Greene blurs documentary and performance until you can't tell which.
Acting
Burre performs her own breakdown — or is she? Devastating either way.
Director
Robert Greene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greene pioneered 'performative documentary' — here, Burre essentially plays a version of herself while living through real crisis, making truth and fiction indistinguishable.
Released the same year as Boyhood, this invisible gem asks harder questions about women's sacrificed time — and got fraction of the attention. Typical.
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