Sink or Swim
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Title: | Sink or Swim | |
Release Year: | 1990 | |
IMDB: | IMDb | |
TMDB: | TMDB | |
Runtime: | 48 | |
Language: | en | |
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Overview (TMDB): | Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his family, and of a daughter who was deeply affected by his behavior. Working in counterpoint to the forceful text are sensual black and white images that depict both the extraordinary and ordinary events of daily life. Together, they create a formally complex and emotionally intense film. |
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In the penultimate section, we hear a story of an encounter between a now adult Friedrich and her father with his 11 year old child from his third marriage. The father interrupts a story being told by the young girl, telling her it is 'not interesting enough'; the episode concludes with Friedrich looking out at her father and young daughter, the father distant, reading a book, the young girl, alone, trying 'to invent a more interesting story'. On the imagetrack, we see the filmmaker trying hard to imagine herself as the 'bad daughter', rebelliously smoking and drinking in bed, watching TV, lying naked in the bathtub. The last image is a close-up on a cluttered ashtray with a book of matches emblazoned with the words 'WILD/ADULT'. |