Facets Cinémathèque
1517 W Fullerton Ave
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Still from Prodigal Sons
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Friday Mar 26, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Saturday Mar 27, 2010 (3, 5, 7 & 9pm)
Sunday Mar 28, 2010 (3, 5, 7 & 9pm)
Monday Mar 29, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Wednesday Mar 31, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Thursday Apr 1, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
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$9
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Facets says:
Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way Prodigal Sons uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender. Reed's rare access delicately reveals not only the family's most private moments, but also an epic scope as the film travels from Montana to Croatia and Kim Reed's compassionate vérité style of filmmaking captures the lives of her family in such an organic way that their exceptional and challenging stories puncture the surface of our expectations. Questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and family love are effortlessly explored as the subjects freely open up their lives to the camera.
