Look at Us Now, Mother!

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Look at Us Now, Mother!

2015

1h 26m

Documentary

Comedy

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10 Reviews

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An honest and unflinching look at the bond between mothers and daughters that can transform from hatred to love.

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

05/05/2016

2.5/4

A small-scale but brave and frequently funny documentary from North Woodmere-raised filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum.

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

04/08/2016

Anyone who's ever had a contentious relationship with a parent should find something to relate to in Gayle Kirschenbaum's enjoyable documentary "Look at Us Now, Mother!"

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Ken Jaworowski

New York Times

04/07/2016

For a movie that promises an "epic journey" to explore a family's "long-buried suffering," it's strangely unsatisfying, and eventually wearisome, to find that this clan is deeply troubled perhaps only in the eyes of its filmmaker.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

04/07/2016

7/10

Candid, brave and moving, but it leaves too many unanswered questions that might have been asked by an unbiased filmmaker with more distance from the Kirschenbaum family.

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Simi Horwitz

Film Journal International

04/07/2016

The autobiographical doc about a disturbed mother-daughter relationship and its resolution is not without interest, yet its exhibitionistic elements are a bit unsettling.

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Synopsis

An honest and unflinching look at the bond between mothers and daughters that can transform from hatred to love.

Director: Gayle Kirschenbaum
Producer: Gayle Kirschenbaum
Screenwriter: Gayle Kirschenbaum
Production Co: Kirschenbaum Productions
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 7, 2017
Runtime: 1h 26m