You See Me

It takes a lot of courage to put out there - on the very public screen - the deepest folds and creases of a relationship between an adult daughter and her now elderly father. The father's stroke triggers the daughter's instinct of getting closer to him, taking care of him, but also it inevitably brings out her pains that were never acknowledged and the questions that were never answered. It's almost unfair to realize that by the time we feel entitled and capable enough to confront and question our parents, it is usually too late and we cannot get any answers. Linda Brown searches everywhere - in her soul, in her relationship with her father, in the past of her family and in her childhood experiences the answer - or rather a narrative - that would make sense of all the things that are lost, as well as of the imminent and inevitable loss of the father with whom the story has not yet found closure. The title suggests the fundamental need to be seen, as well as the impulse to see - in the sense of finding the truth - and we are privileged to have access to Linda's no-holds-barred search for both those ways of seeing.