A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
This is a warm, brave and thought-provoking piece of autobiography.
Honestly, it’s one of the best things you’ll see this year.
Polley’s fearless personal journey is a huge achievement, a genuine revelation — but the less detail you know beforehand, the better. Go in cold, come out warmed.
Polley's cine-tribute is a gripping and absorbing meditation on the unknowability of other lives.
It helps that these particular lives have been so eventful, and that the players are all likable, intelligent, engaging and articulate – easy company from whom we want to hear more.
What emerges is a fascinating and illuminating story, one that runs the gamut from intense joy to deep sadness and features a couple of surprising twists that take proceedings off in strange and unusual directions.
While I wasn’t as blown-away by Polley’s festival favourite as many of the critics here, it’s often compelling and definitely worth seeing.
Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess'
Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell: watch teh acclaimed documentary here
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