Review of Stories We Tell (2012) by Murali B — 23 Dec 2013
Polley's story is interesting enough, but the brilliance of the movie is in the telling, and her remarkably agile shaping of the documentary form into a kind of psychological forensics exercise. She's a geologist of the mind, revealing in successive and contradictory moments just how flawed our memories turn out to be.
We believe what we want to believe. We believe the truth of others. We believe what we need to believe to survive. Until one member of the family decides to uncover the "real" truth. I thought several times of Mike Leigh's great "Secrets and Lies" and wondered, how did Polley do this?
This review of Stories We Tell (2012) was written by Murali B on 23 Dec 2013.
Stories We Tell has generally received very positive reviews.
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