Film Review Stories We Tell

 We watched this pretty good 2012 documentary film made by Sarah Polley and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Polley looks at her fractured family life and reveals she is the product of her mother Diane's extramarital affair. This is kept as an open secret by Diane and her friends. She goes to painful lengths to hide it from her husband Paul. After Diane dies at an early age from cancer, Sarah takes on the task of telling her story with the help of the memories from her family members who she interviews on camera. Paul discovers he raised another man's child, but helps out Sarah by using his writing talents to his memoir which is part of Sarah's story. I found the film to be touching, funny, and intelligent. The film runs 108 minutes.