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Nana, Mom, and Me
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"...In its truthfulness and...its commitment to finding a means to bridge the generations, Nana, Mom, and Me is an important contribution to film biography and contemporary documentary."
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What began as a film document (recording Nana before she died) evolves into the filmmaker's search for her roots, her relationship with her family, and her identity as a woman. Using photographs, old home movies and direct interviews Amalie R. Rothschild explores the mother-daughter ties in 3 generations of her own family and in the process explores the classic female problem faced by her artist mother: the conflict between work and children--the necessary compromises, the incumbent anxieties. The structure is intentionally loose and open-ended, like a good conversation, emphasizing the need to ask the right questions rather than give pat answers. Appropriate for:
47 minutes • VHS
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REVIEWS "...a moving account of three generations of women...which goes beyond the semi-authenticity of the documentary style into real creativity." "Nana, Mom, and Me seems to have reached deeper into the fertile terrain of mother/daughter relationships than any film of recent times." "...causes viewers to consider their family relationships. Provocative for film programs on the family in public libraries, religious and community organizations; also valuable for courses in marriage and the family, sociology, and counseling on the high school and college level. Ages 15 to adult." "In Nana, Mom, and Me, Amalie Rothschild meets an immovable object in a grandmother who refuses to talk about her life (and 27 year marriage to an invalid), but out of this failure comes an unexpected success. Unable to draw out the member of her family with whom she feels a special affinity she turns to her own mother for information, and in the process it is her mother's interesting, complex portrait that emerges. We see through old photographs and home movies the classic conflict between a woman (the grandmother) who is beautiful and social, and her only girl, a plain child, being forced into unsuitable frocks, and later into make-up, that only emphasize the gap between society's ideal feminity and her own. She eventually becomes an artist, and the story of her application, in an environment that offered little encouragement, is a heroic one." "From the moment the filmmaker places herself in front of the camera to introduce her purpose, the viewer is involved (even taking sides) in her unabashedly personal search for the origins of her identity."
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