Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
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| Original title | Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 30 minutes |
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| Director | Terri Randall |
| script | Terri Randall |
| production | Terri Randall |
| music | Thomas Wagner |
| camera | Mark Trottenberg |
| cut | Juliet Weber |
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Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride is an American documentary - short film in 1997. The film was at the Oscars in 1998 for an Academy Award as " Best Short Documentary nominated". The film is part of the Family Video Diaries series by television broadcaster HBO .
action
The documentary filmmaker Terri Randall follows her family with the video camera after Terri's mother, the 66-year-old Pearl, announced that she wanted to remarry. Terri and her siblings are struggling with the new situation. Pearl, widowed for 40 years, met and fell in love with Seymour. Her three children wonder what that means for them and whether remarriage will change anything in the memory of their long-dead father. Terri Randall shows her mother wondering whether to wear the pearls that her first husband gave her to the wedding, or rather a gold necklace that Seymour gave her. At the end of the film, Terri Randall draws a conclusion: Seymour will not replace her father. He was just her mother's new husband.
reception
Todd Everett saw the film for Variety magazine and was not thrilled on its November 4, 1997 review. Everett accuses the filmmaker of self-centeredness (“ Daughter of the Bride couldn't be more self-centered”) and misses the complete lack of portrayal of the groom's family (“Randall seems to think that her story is quite enough; let Rose's new husband's family make their own documentary "). Nevertheless, the film is "nicely made" and offers "colorful characters".
Web links
- Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todd Everett: Review: Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride , Nov. 4, 1997 article on variety.com, accessed January 4, 2014.