Watch First Cousin Once Removed For Free
First Cousin Once Removed
Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.
| Release : | 2012 |
| Rating : | 7.5 |
| Studio : | HBO Films, |
| Crew : | Camera Operator, Camera Operator, |
| Cast : | |
| Genre : | Documentary |
Watch Trailer
Cast List
Related Movies
Dread Beat an' Blood
Britney Spears: Breaking Free
She
Reviews
A Masterpiece!
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Talented and off-beat film-maker Alan Berliner documents the mind of his much older first cousin, the poet and translator Edwin Homing, as he slowly loses the battle against Alzheimer's.Of course, any film about that subject can't help but be touching, but Berliner goes well beyond the obvious tragedy to raise questions of; what is memory, time, family? We see and hear both the good and bad about this man, hear (and sometimes see) his poetry, hear the anger he put on his children as they were growing up, to end of not with a portrait of a disease victim, but of a man and an artist. Berliner jumps around in time, so we see Edwin in bad and good moments. In the end, this isn't a linear portrait of a man's decline, but an thoughtful and even darkly entertaining exploration of what is communication, thought, love.
