Remake

The death of his son causes Ross McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work in this Venice Film Festival award-winning documentary.

He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.

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