Canada, 2012, 109 minutes; PG

WINNER! BEST CANADIAN FILM & BEST DOCUMENTARY! --Toronto Film Critics

When actor-turned-director Sarah Polley was a teenager, her siblings joked about how little she looked like her father, English-born writer Michael Polley. Her beautiful, charismatic mother, Diane, had died a few years before that, and the burr stayed under her saddle until she began a more thorough investigation of her extended family’s puzzling secrets.

The result is Stories We Tell, a kaleidoscopic look at what goes into one family’s autobiography. She interviewed virtually everyone who was or is involved in the saga, including her many siblings, who come across as a likable, truth-prone bunch. The superbly crafted film is nicely framed by a recording session, shot by Polley, with her dad reading his dryly written recollection of the times.

This is fleshed out by home movies, archival footage, and deftly interwoven re-creations, adding to the mystery as much as they explicate it….Misbehaviour, especially as it was viewed in the Toronto of the 1960s and ’70s, is a central topic.  –Georgia Straight

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