The filmmaker Trey Edward Shults thinks a lot about families. Shults’s biological father struggled with alcoholism and addiction and was an infrequent presence in his life. He was raised from a young age by his stepfather and mother, both psychotherapists, who kindled his interest in human fallibility. In 2013, 10 years after he lost contact with his biological father, Shults paid him a final visit as he was dying from pancreatic cancer. The emotional ideas he had been trying to communicate had been lost in translation, drowned out amid an ancillary debate over the film’s genre credentials.

Source: New York Times November 17, 2019 19:30 UTC