Synopsis
Director: Kirsten Johnson
89 min, USA, 2020
With this inventive and intimate portrait, multi-award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging scenes of his potential demise along with fantasies of the afterlife. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all. Winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Award for Innovation and IndieWire’s Critics Poll for Best Documentary, Johnson’s latest heartfelt and deeply profound opus is “a gorgeous blend of truth and fiction” (RogerEbert.com), “brilliantly original in every way” (The Hollywood Reporter), and “a documentary whose mordant comedy becomes the ultimate expression of love” (Los Angeles Times).