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The Eternal Memory
Why this pick
Like Kirsten Johnson’s film, it faces a parent’s fading memory with unusual tenderness, allowing everyday humor and filmmaking’s intimacy to coexist with the ache of time passing.
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MOVIE2020 1h 29m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After a lifetime of making documentaries, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson is ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book — staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at pain and keep her father alive forever.
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