NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

sergelamarche Sarah and all her help do something really special here. After finding out she has a dna father from Montréal, she decides to investigate. After the findings, she decides to make this film out of it. It starts like we'll hear the usual story of straying wife but ends with so much more. Touching and hilarious simultaneously. Fabulous film for fabulous story. Most of it 'espiègle'.

joolthefool I never review movies but hated this so much and didn't find nearly enough vitriol on here.I didn't go into this wanting to dislike it and withheld judgment until the final act. And before I get ripping, I did find the second husband, the polley one, to be likable if completely uninteresting. As other reviewers have stated, this is not an examination of or even a rumination on narrative or recollection or truth or family. The film attempts to explain to us how deep it is in the last act, seeking to justify itself and help us process the deep currents that arnt there. That stuff is clearly tacked on and then overtly hammered home in a specious, ', if we have have the genial gravitas of a liberal arts class or Ira Glass, maybe people will swallow it' way to compensate for the total flimsiness and worthlessness of the film both formally and in terms of character/narrative/thought/substance.I'm shocked that a movie that has to literally state its thesis at least three times toward the end in an attempt to justify its existence, and hopes to pass that off as either clever or deep and 'meta', hasn't been more widely ridiculed,Furthermore, Sarah P is generally unlike able (we hear her voice, and see her in the process of making the film and are imp'icitly supposed to identify with her and root for her without ever being given reason to -and I am a cinephile because I am eager to empathize with the voices and faces on the screen). The mom character, who is sketched broadly and reductively (with the same simple take of her repeated over and over but apparently she was not interesting enough for anyone to have a engaging anecdote), seemed intolerable.And the biological father (Harry?) is one of the grossest people I have ever seen in a documentary. Totally delusional narcissistic clown, totally Embarrassing to watch. Incredible shocking disgusting hate-able narcissism that is emblematic of the worst of the wannabe baby boom generation, just as Sarah P seems to hold down the vapid navel gazing narcissism for gen x or whatever she is. Can more people flay this garbage pleease? Check out Close Up or My Winnipeg for films dealing with the complexity of narrative and origin that actually carry intellectual and artistic weight

Ocean Blue This is a recommended-to-watch movie, However, there were few things missing in the story. I think the story was told too good to be true. I mean everybody seem to be happy and satisfied with what happened. No matter how Dian had been behaving irresponsible and careless towards her children, her spouses and her lover in different occasions, they all speak as if because of Dians circumstances it was all right. It appears to me that since she has died years ago, everybody is OK with the facts and nobody is complaining and doesn't remember any resentment or doesn't want to remember it. Sarah is not taking part in telling thestory. she doesn't contribute to movie like others. she questions and directs but doesn't narrate anything herself. doesn't speak about her feelings. her point of view. all I can guess, is that she liked her mum(or maybe the story itself) enough, to edit the movie in a way that depicts everything being wonderful.

jake_fantom If you enjoy spending hours in the company of completely self-absorbed people struggling to make their banal lives somehow dramatic and important, this documentary is for you. It's hard for me to imagine a more pathetic waste of time than listening to the endless jawboning of this clan of no-talents as they rehash sordid but ultimately so-what family events with the gravitas of Walter Cronkite reporting on D-Day. The only thing that is remarkable about the assembled cast as they tell their stories to the camera is how truly clueless and narcissistic each family member is, along with the outer members of their circle. There is plenty of archival video to flesh out the threadbare story. In fact, this tribe of narcissists seems to have shot home video of virtually every moment of their dreary lives -- from having drinks in a nondescript bar to walking down the street, sitting in the kitchen, and so on. Spare us from such bores.