âFilm About a Father Whoâ Review: Family Secrets by Omission
In her new documentary, Lynne Sachs assesses her relationship with her father, Ira Sachs Sr., who fathered children with multiple women.
Ira Sachs Sr., as seen in Lynne Sachs’s documentary “Film About a Father Who.”Credit.Cinema Guild
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Lynne Sachs shot the footage that became âFilm About a Father Whoâ from 1984 to 2019, and her ideas about what form the movie might take â along with her impressions of her father â must have changed during that time. (Even movies themselves evolved. âFilm About a Father Whoâ mixes 8- and 16-millimeter film, home videotapes and, from the near present, digital material.)