“For filmmaker Lynne Sachs, the action of reflecting, recording, and editing a film about her family produces a pretty crazy personal narrative: the new documentary feature Film About a Father Who.”
Screening online April 20- May 4!
“He never stands still, and neither does the film, resulting in a work as mercurial and fugitive as life itself, resistant to harmonious closure.”
The current list of films on MUBI in March 2021.
Ten-IshPublication by Susan Saligner 02/19/2021https://www.ten-ish.com/tenish-home/lynne-sachs “Lynne Sachs has always eluded easy labeling…. She focuses on capturing gestures, inches of skin, fragments of conversations, casual moments in time, personal memorabilia, and weaving them into unexpected patterns….. (She) sublimes the personal into the theatrical …. (and) embraces variegated renditions of filmic language, recording the world, digesting it, and offering it to […]
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Kino Rebelde has created a retrospective that traces a delicate line connecting intimacy, power relations, violence, memory, migration, desire, love, and war in Lynne’s films.
This five-part retrospective offers a career-ranging survey of Sachs’s work.
Join us on Friday February 19th at 2pm PT for an intimate conversation about personal storytelling in the documentary space with Film Fatales members Elan Bogarín (306 Hollywood), Lynne Sachs (Film About a Father Who) and Tiffany Hsiung (Sing Me A Lullaby). Moderated by Film Fatales member Judith Helfand (Love & Stuff).
“Throughout this candid, bravely public act of introspection, Sachs expresses conflicted empathy for the aging patriarch.”
