Stories We Tell Sarah Polley 2012

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Stories we tell sarah polley 2012. With michael polley john buchan mark polley joanna polley. Stories we tell 2012. Directed by sarah polley. The film explores her family s secrets including one intimately related to polley s own identity.

Narration cast in credits order verified as complete michael polley. 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. Stories we tell 2012 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Today in venice my latest film stories we tell will be screening for the first time until now thanks to the extraordinary decency of many people including some journalists who have known the story for years and kept it secret i have been able to keep its contents under wraps.

In honor of the netflix release of sundance sensation dick johnson is dead we re looking back on other documentaries with deeply personal angles. 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. Sarah polley s portrait of her parents marriage is a gripping tale full of richness tenderness and emotional complexity a cinematic love letter to her parents sarah polley s stories we tell. Canadian actor director sarah polley who aptly made her international breakthrough in a tale of complex familial circumstances atom egoyan s 1997 the sweet hereafter dishes the dirt about her family and its history narrated by her father the esteemed british canadian actor michael.

Prior to watching the trailer of stories we tell i watched an interview of sarah polley discussing this film. Sarah polley s fascinating documentary stories we tell is ostensibly about her mother diane polley who died in 1990. She was concerned that this film would not be interesting enough for an audience. Written by michael polley.

She was lovely as she answered the interviewers questions concerning this movie. 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 hook is as immediate and tawdry as a tabloid headline or afternoon talk show. Stories we tell 2012 the hook is.

The following is a guest post from filmmaker sarah polley about her new film stories we tell. Sarah polley writing credits sarah polley.