The Walk – Desgregating the Deep North
School desegregation reached Boston in 1974. It turned into violent confrontations, especially in...
Tag: family drama
Petite Maman – Childhood magic
The innocence of childhood may present an opportunity for magic to happen. The openness of a child...
The Devil You Know – Keeping your brother
Charles Murray?s The Devil You Know openly invokes the biblical story of Cain and Abel to consider...
House of Gucci – Desire Destroys a Family
?And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.? (Gen....
Wildland – Family Values?
In Jeanette Nordahl?s Wildland, family is the most important thing in life. But is that good? Can...
Hope – The Possibility of Light in the Darkness
?You don?t have to love me just because I?m dying. But I need to know that you?ll help me.? A...
Hillbilly Elegy – Family Turmoil
?Where we come from is who we are, but we choose every day who we become.? J. D. Vance?s...
Sorry We Missed You: When the Work Ethic Doesn’t Work
?I?ve got to go to work. I have not got a choice.? We are told that if we work hard, we will find...
What They Had – Family Struggle of Dementia
Dementia can be a nightmare for families. It?s not just watching a loved one becoming lost as...
Back to Burgundy – Finding Family Again
The dynamic of change and lack of change is explored in the family drama Back to Burgundy. It is the story of the reunion of three siblings on their family?s vineyard. There is much that is the same as it has always been, but also much that changes day by day.
What Will People Say – Culture Clash
What Will People Say was one of my favorite films at AFIFest this year. I wasn?t alone in my estimation of the work; it also won the Audience Award in the New Auteurs section. It is a powerful and engaging film in which two different value systems collide within the life of a teenager as she grows up with connection to two cultures.
Lady Bird – Discovering a Best Self
I saw this film on Thanksgiving weekend, and it was amazingly appropriate. So much of our time is spent being oblivious to the many things we have because we so often focus on the things we do not have. That is very much Lady Bird?s experience with the world.
Summer 1993 – A Child’s Loss of Innocence
As Summer 1993 opens, children are playing in the street. One of them looks at six-year-old Frida (Laia Artegas), and asks, ?Why aren?t you crying?? Is that part of the game or does Frida have reason to cry?