In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar (R)-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story. (c) Roadside AttractionsIf You Like this movie you can streaming Stories We Tell movie without downloading HERE
Genre Movie :Documentary,Drama,Art House & International,Special Interest
Mpaa Rating : PG-13 Release Date : May 10, 2013 Limited
Actors :Michael Polley,Harry Gulkin,Susy Buchan,John Buchan,Mark Polley,Joanna Polley,Cathy Gulkin,Marie Murphy,Robert MacMillan,Anne Tait,Deirdre Bowen,Victoria Mitchell,Mort Ransen,Geoffrey Bowes,Tom Butler,Pixie Bigelow,Claire Walker,Rebecca Jenkins,Peter Evans,Alex Hatz
Visitor Ranting & Critics For Stories We Tell
User Ranting Stories We Tell : 4User Percentage For Stories We Tell : 82 %
User Count Like for Stories We Tell : 6,321
All Critics Ranting For Stories We Tell : 8.7
All Critics Count For Stories We Tell : 98
All Critics Percentage For Stories We Tell : 95 %
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Everyone has a different story. I found myself holding my breath listening to them talk. The story twists like a thriller.Cath Clarke-Time Out
Stories We Tell is not just very moving; it is an exploration of truth and fiction that will stay with you long after repeated viewings.
David Thomson-The New Republic
Part of the movie's pleasure is how comfortable the "storytellers" are with their director; you get a sense of a complicated but tight-knit family, going along with Sarah's project because they love her.
Moira MacDonald-Seattle Times
What a great movie.
Bill Goodykoontz-Arizona Republic
Never sentimental, never cold and never completely sure of anything, Polley comes across as a woman caught in wonder.
Tom Long-Detroit News
After you see it, you'll be practically exploding with questions - and with awe.
Steven Rea-Philadelphia Inquirer
Fascinating personal documentary.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Slowly but surely Polley pieces together her own family's history to create a kind of cinematic narrative - complete with a twist straight from a soap opera.
Graham Young-Birmingham Mail
An unconventional but wonderfully assembled exploration of how -- and why -- we tell stories, all wrapped in a closely guarded family secret.
Mike Scott-Times-Picayune
Polley is savvy, using her talent as a director -- as a storyteller -- to give it universal appeal even though it's a very specific account.
Eric D. Snider-About.com
Perhaps the most organic, transformative meeting of form and function I've seen this year.
Charlie Lyne-Ultra Culture
Stories We Tell is cinema cutting to the profound truth of why we use narrative to make sense of the world.
Blake Howard-2UE That Movie Show
For the most part, Polley's thoughts and feelings are pretty much absent, but the film makes some nice observations about memory and how it affects - yup - the stories we tell.
Stephen Carty-Flix Capacitor
The movie isn't really about the Polley family: It's about memory, and loss, and forgiveness, and, through it all, hope. It'll knock you over.
Will Leitch-Deadspin
What emerges is a fascinating and illuminating story, one that runs the gamut from intense joy to deep sadness and features a couple of surprising twists that take proceedings off in strange and unusual directions.
Alistair Harkness-Scotsman
An honest and authentic documentary that powerfully explores the filmmaker's own family.
John Hanlon-John Hanlon Reviews
Polley's portrait of modern family life is a playfully profound discussion of narrative forms - the way in which we each construct our own reality through stories, part truth, part invention.
Mark Kermode-Observer [UK]
A decent piece of work, but too fussy for its own good.
Donald Clarke-Irish Times
Polley approaches every character with compassion, intent upon blessing them, and serving the audience with useful questions about how we seek the truth.
Jeffrey Overstreet-Response
Polley is working in the tradition of Orson Welles, but her trickery can be exasperating; it also neutralises many of the emotional revelations.
Ryan Gilbey-New Statesman
With Away From Her and Take This Waltz, actress-turned-filmmaker Polley has proved herself as an unusually gifted director, but this inventive, moving documentary reveals even more artistic ambition.
Rich Cline-Contactmusic.com
What saves it is our realisation that it isn't just a documentary.
David Sexton-This is London
A bittersweet and compelling autobiographical family portrait.
Adam Woodward-Little White Lies
Kane-like in its mirrored complexity, flashing in its mischievous irony, the story is a shiny maze which Polley enters knowing exactly where and what her Minotaur is - the secret of her paternal parentage - while spinning for us a thread to follow.
Nigel Andrews-Financial Times
Polley ... smilingly tells us that a story like hers can never truly be tied down, even as she screws every last piece into place.
Robbie Collin-Daily Telegraph
Polley's cine-tribute is a gripping and absorbing meditation on the unknowability of other lives.
Peter Bradshaw-Guardian [UK]
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