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Stories We Tell is a 2012 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Sarah Polley and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film explores her family's secrets—including one intimately related to Polley's own identity. Stories We Tell premiered August 29, 2012 at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, then played at the 39th Telluride Film Festival and the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. In 2015, it was added to the Toronto International Film ...
Jan 17, 2013 · Stories We Tell: Directed by Sarah Polley. With Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John Buchan. A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Thomas M The best documentary movie ever made! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/26/22 Full Review Audience Member I didn't find this interesting for a long time - narrated documentary ...
Using a mix of interviews and sly home movies, Sarah Polley creates an intriguing profile of her family, especially her complicated late mother. Watch trailers & learn more.
STORIES WE TELL is a "riveting" (LOS ANGELES TIMES), "unmissable" (ROLLING STONE) genre-twisting film by Oscar®- nominated director Sarah Polley. Her investi...
May 19, 2013 · Families create their own narratives. Stories are passed on from generation to generation, and in this way the past continues to live, but it can also be obscured or distorted. Joan Didion famously wrote, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Family arguments often come down to who "owns" the narrative, or which version is decided upon as the "true" one. Sarah Polley's fascinating documentary, "Stories We Tell," is ostensibly about her mother, Diane Polley, who died in 1990. A ...
Stories We Tell is an inspired, genre-twisting film by Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley, and produced by Anita Lee for the NFB. Her playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a profound portrait of a complicated and deeply loving family.
In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day ...
Academy Award nominee Sarah Polley's extraordinary #StoriesWeTell is a deeply moving portrait of a family dealing with a legacy of secrets and lies, and the ...
Oscar-nominated director Sarah Polley uncovers the secrets buried within a family of storytellers in this "unmissable" (Rolling Stone) and "riveting" (Los Angeles Times) film.
