Stories We Tell
documentary
134
Stimulating
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
Cognitive Stimulation/50
34
Educational Value/50
28
Craft & Quality/50
40
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The TVI Take
Sarah Polley investigates her family's secret through interviews and reconstructed footage. Formally exceptional — the revelation of which footage is reconstructed is among documentary cinema's finest formal moments.
Educational about family myth-making and the subjective nature of memory.
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