Lilly Rivlin
Producer/director/writer
56 minutes, 2000

Israel Film Festival, 2001,
nominated for competition

Black Maria Film & Video
Festival,
Director's Citation Award

Worldfest Houston, 2001,
Gold Award

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NY, NY 10014, US

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Who of us knows our parents, asks the filmmaker at the outset. 

She documents her parents at the end of their lives as they lie
next to each other in adjoining hospital beds, like two Beckett
characters, immobilized by sickness. 
 

Seeking to make sense of their marriage, she explores her
father's contradictory personality, his relationship to his family
and his love affairs. 

In the end, her father is her mother's chief caretaker, keeping
her alive and giving her the attention she always wanted. 
 

And the filmmaker, the oldest daughter, has a conversation with
her father that she would never have had if not for the mediation
of the camera. 

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