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Stories We Tell
Why this pick
Like The Arbor, it uses staged recollection, interviews and competing voices to turn biography into an unstable, emotionally searching investigation of memory and authorship.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2010 1h 34m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its unnerving reenactments let participants shape their own stories, sharing The Arbor’s bold hybrid-documentary form and its interest in performance as a route to difficult truth.
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Dreams of a Life
Why this pick
A quiet British documentary mystery assembled through friends, neighbours and absences; it shares The Arbor’s fragmented oral-history structure and profound compassion for a life beyond easy explanation.
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Listen to Me Marlon
Why this pick
Built from intimate archival audio and evocative reconstruction, it similarly lets a complicated life emerge through voices, performance and the gaps between self-image and testimony.
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The Queen of Versailles
Why this pick
An observational portrait whose apparent subject keeps changing as its family confronts collapse. Its social sharpness and discomfort with self-presentation echo The Arbor’s layered view of class and storytelling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christine Bottomley
Lisa Thompson
Manjinder Virk
Lorraine Dunbar
Natalie Gavin
The Girl
George Costigan
Jimmy 'The Wig'
Monica Dolan
Ann Hamilton
Neil Dudgeon
Steve Saul
Jimi Mistry
Yousaf
Robert Emms
Young David