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It's impossible to listen to Francesca's parents, deadly serious about art as a higher calling, without feeling both saddened and disturbed.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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The Woodmans
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The story of a family that suffers a tragedy, but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making art.
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The Woodmans tells the compelling, if slightly disturbing, story of a family coming to grips with love, ego, resentment and loss.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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Willis provides no easy answers and points no fingers, but the search proves fascinating.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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Woodman's black-and-white photographs, many of them self-portraits, convey a haunting sense of isolation; of something forever lost from the empty, almost decaying rooms in which she drapes herself.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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Willis works to turn The Woodmans into an existential mystery, through a soundtrack full of moody vibes, interviews shot in tight close-ups, and the floating words from Francesca's diaries that Willis inserts as a kind of answer from beyond the grave.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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