My Father and Me
Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationships with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England.
For decades among the foremost names in documentary, Nick Broomfield has often implicated himself in the film-making process with honesty and candour. Yet never has he made a movie more distinctly personal than this complex and moving film about his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid, often lustrous images of industrial post-WWII England.
These images inspired Nick鈥檚 own film-making career but also spoke to a difference in outlook between Maurice and Nick, whose less romantic, more left-wing political identity stemmed from his Jewish mother鈥檚 side. My Father and Me is both memoir and tribute, and in its intimate story of one family, it takes an expansive, philosophical look at the 20th century itself.
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Music Played
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Brian Eno
Another Green World
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The Mantovani Orchestra
Charmaine
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The Phoenix Foundation
Sideways Glance
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James Last and His Orchestra, James Last
Empty Glasses
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Nick Broomfield |
Producer | Kyle Gibbon |
Producer | Marc Hoeferlin |
Producer | Shani Hinton |
Editor | Joe Siegal |
Executive Producer | Patrick Holland |
Executive Producer | Mark Bell |
Executive Producer | Charles Finch |
Production Company | Lafayette Film Ltd |
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