Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
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,
25 Jun 2013
fresh:
Sarah Polley's remarkable Stories We Tell transcends every cliche in this confessional/investigatory genre, and it's one of the year's highlights.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Dec 2013
rotten:
he opposite of a courageous piece of work, Stories We Tell goes out of its way to protect every single person it touches.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
31 Dec 2013
fresh:
Stories We Tell is one of those movies you watch on a screen and replay in your head for days, moving between its many levels of inquiry and touched, always, by Polley's compassion toward her relatives in particular and people in general.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
31 Dec 2013
fresh:
If a personal memoir film by a beautiful, successful young woman from a nice Toronto family sounds to you like it can only be an excuse for self-absorbed navel-gazing, well, you must not have seen a Sarah Polley movie yet.