Bare (2006)

• 77%
• 2006
• Santana Issar

The director is criticized by her mother and sister, who are estranged from their father over his alcoholism. With her mother and sister pulling her back and forth, she is driven to the phone by old memories of her father and his current reality. Home videos from twenty-some years ago show her father speaking tenderly to the two close sisters while they innocently play. The footage makes the viewer feel as though the joyous family videos may reveal something if one looks hard enough. The director faces her father through the phone and tries to understand him, as if attempting to bring back the past.