The personal documentary is a well worn, some say "tired," format for young filmmakers just starting out. But in Cynthia Wade's funny and touching portrait of her divorced parents and how their lives shaped her own, the personal film has found an elegant practitioner. Bravely, Cynthia Wade not only exposes her parents' failed marriage, but the lonely life she leads too as she wonders if she'll ever meet a man she can love and marry. The film-making is subtle and painfully funny and uses wonderful Super 8 footage that her father shot in the 1960s and 70s to connect us to the past. This is a film for anyone with "parental issues" (pretty much all humankind) and for those doubting souls who wonder if happiness will always be a harvest reaped by somebody else.
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