“Breathtaking in its stripped-down simplicity, the film is a small miracle of inferences and implicit understandings. Hittman’s subtractions become additions in the audience’s imagination. Ultimately it feels like a cousin to the Romanian New Wave masterpiece Four Months, Three Weeks And Two Days by way of Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy And Lucy.” – North Shore Movies, 04/03/2020
“I thought we might keep the nocturnal vibe going by choosing two Scorsese movies that actually take place after midnight. 1985’s giddy, exasperating After Hours is an anomaly in the director’s canon in that it’s an out-and-out comedy, albeit an extremely nervous one, while 1999’s Bringing Out The Dead is one of the filmmaker’s most underappreciated works.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/03/2020
“What makes the movie so moving is that we watch the family learning how to live with the diagnosis, and perhaps more importantly, learning how to joke about it. There’s a raw power in this footage I’m not sure the filmmakers really have a handle on, as it hits upon that primal human need to turn grief into art, to salvage something positive out of all this sadness.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/02/2020
SPLICED PERSONALITY 