306 Hollywood

Just wanted to let you and Jonathon know that the love you have for your family is so beautiful. I felt it throughout the entire movie. Of course it nade me cry, laugh and feel every ounce of love that you felt making it and all that you put into a little masterpiece of family life. Tysm!!

The filmmakers clearly love their family. This documentary is lush and stylish, as if Wes Anderson was a brother & sister team of documentarians. I honestly don't understand the negative reviews. See this for yourself and decide.

The film is meant to be a tribute to their grandmother. However there are some segments in the film that would in my opinion humiliate grandma. Also the producers mother uses language that I believe or perhaps hope is scripted rather than her natural tongue. There are many sentimental scenes in this film but I was left feeling uncomfortable by what I have referenced.

I agree with those critics who disapprove of one of the choices in the film, but I feel the uniqueness and creativity expressed in this film puts it in the must-see list of any Documentary aficionado.

It is thought provoking and raises fundemental questions about our own family's mythology, grappling to understand loss of loved ones, and what is our remaining essence.

In a way it is a sad movie about a perrson who lived what appears to have been a rather unremarkable life, however the magical realism style lightens it up.

Stylistically it is an innovative and important film to pay attention to!

Years ago I read an interview with a studio head who said something like 90% of the scripts they get only the writers mother would enjoy.... today they make a documentary. So many family stories that not even the family would be interested in are turned in to documentaries that no one wants to watch. But Simka went to film school so let her make a film. If your Simka or are sleeping with her you have to watch... the rest of us don't.