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Watchlist. NEW. Back Home follows a sister's pursuit to get to know her older brother, 20 years after he took his own life. Through intimate recollections re-imagined on 16mm and Super8, and ...
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Nov 28, 2022 · November 28, 2022 November 21, 2022 Nick Wangersky Review Back Home, Josh Platzer, Nisha Platzer It’s interesting what lengths you have to go to figure out somebody’s life story, especially when they’re in your family and don’t know everything you expected to know about them.
- Two Families United in Grief
- Haunting Images
- Back Home Premieres at VIFF 2022.
Platzer looks at her family as well amid the visits and email exchanges with Swan and Sam. Her parents, Jude and Ben, don’t seem to have ever fully recovered from the loss of their son. As Swan’s recollections contextualize them, Nisha grasps that parents never really get over the death of a child, especially one that was so sudden and, to them, su...
Plazter also works her journey as a filmmaker into the story and form of back home. For one, the film observes as she and Josh’s friend Sara to school in Cuba for cinema and medicine, respectively. Filmmaking offers a lens through which they can assess their grief. back home offers cutaways to Platzer as she develops the film reels and hangs the ne...
Correction: This review previously stated that Platzer and Sara both studied film in Cuba. Sara studied medicine. This article also changed the language by request to note “a suicide” in the opening paragraph.
In a striking combination of memories captured on film and images of daily life, Nisha Platzer tries to piece together a portrait of the brother she lost as a child. The film gently and slowly approaches its subject through the people who knew him and the fragments of objects he left behind. The teenager who emerges is deeply sensitive and ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Ki’s film has much in common, tonally and visually, with Stanley Kwan and Ann Hui’s films, upmarket ghost dramas as much as chillers, that had a thing or two to say about modern Hong Kong. Ki is blessed with a strong cast and crew that go a long way to realising a cohesive vision that quite confidently fires on multiple cylinders.
Sep 30, 2022 · In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment leads her to the door of someone who was once exceptionally close to Josh. And so it is that she finally has the chance to truly know her brother through his chosen family. Captured over five years in which synchronicities continually manifested ...
Dir. Nisha Platzer. 2022, Canada, 90 min. back home follows filmmaker Nisha Platzer’s pursuit to get to know her older brother, Josh, twenty years after he took his own life. As she connects with the friends who knew him best as a teen, a complex portrait emerges. Through intimate recollections re-imagined on Super8 and 16mm film, and lyrical ...
