Review: Nine children with six women? ‘Film About a Father Who’ untangles director’s family tree
LA TimesIn the opening moments of Lynne Sachs’ personal documentary “Film About a Father Who,” we see the filmmaker carefully detangling her octogenarian dad Ira’s unruly, hippie-holdover locks. It’s a quiet slice of caretaking intimacy, but it also doubles as prologue to the knotty family journey to follow, which in no small part involves Sachs making sense of a free-spirited parent’s complicated legacy. But it also created nine children over 30 years with six different women, where various kids were often unaware for long stretches about others’ existences. In corralling stories about her father from exes and her extended brothers and sisters, then positioning them amidst archival footage and up-to-the-minute scenes, Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.
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