A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- Awards
- 25 wins & 44 nominations
- Self - Storyteller
- (as Geoff Bowes)
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Did you know
- TriviaSarah collected all the stories first. She went through all the period footage she had available. After that, she hired actors to recreate and reenact bits filmed on 8mm to complete the missing period footage. This explains why there is always "proof" of all the raconteurs stories. It works rather as flashbacks to place us in situation.
- Quotes
Michael Polley - Storyteller: When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but rather a confusion, a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard are powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all, when you're telling it to yourself or someone else.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2012 (2012)
- SoundtracksTranquility
Written by Abraham Lass
From PLAY ME A MOVIE (Folkways Records/AH 3856)
Courtesy of TRF Production Music Libraries and Alpha Music Inc. and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
© 1971 Used by permission.
It is definitely a brave personal project for Sarah Polley. And it's important to not read any of the spoilers. It is possibly the most intriguing use of film recently. It makes you question the reality of her story, and given some personal reflection, it'll make you question the reality of your own story.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,600,145
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,053
- May 12, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $2,641,053
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1