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Early on in Garrett Bradley’s stunning documentary
Time, Sibil Fox Richardson is driving in the car with her young sons. One of them, Remington, is holding the camera as his mother drives. The frame is shaky at first, whirling around for a second before it settles on the trees as they fly by the highway side. “Well, Dad, this is the fall season,” Remington says. He pans out the passenger window toward a cul-de-sac of fancy houses. Suddenly his face fills the frame, softly smiling as he films himself up close. “So, Pops, this is me. This is myself. Back to you.”
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By Holly Honderich
On Sunday night, a black female director could be awarded an Academy Award for the first time in Oscars history. In her new documentary Time, Garrett Bradley shares a poignant, decades-long story of one Louisiana family s struggle with the US prison system - through the lens of loved ones left behind.
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image captionIn Time, high school sweethearts Fox and Rob Rich navigate the US prison system
In the first few minutes of Time, Sibil Fox Richardson looks straight down the lens and speaks to her husband Robert, then an inmate at the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg s buoyant comedy about a school teacher who turns to alcohol to cope with his midlife crisis is very different in tone from Tove Ditlevsen s slim, punchy autobiographical trilogy Childhood, Youth, Dependency about a gifted poet who achieves fame but ends up a drug addict. Yet both are set in Copenhagen and wise to the slippery slope of substance abuse and its nihilistic appeal. Vinterberg finds black humour in tragedy, while Ditlevsen becomes mired in it. There s a plainspoken clarity to her prose that somehow makes the devastating trajectory of her short life hit even harder.
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