The read
Critics rate it 39 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Ratings
Critics rate it 39 points higher than audiences do.
Key crew
- Devorah BaumDirector
- Josh AppignanesiWriter
- Josh AppignanesiDirector
- Devorah BaumWriter
Cast
- Adam AndrusierSelf
- Lisa AppignanesiSelf
- Richard AppignanesiSelf
- Chloe AridjisSelf
- Geoffrey BaumSelf
- Josh BaumSelf
- Shirley BaumSelf
- John BergerSelf
- Anna ColtonSelf
- Sophie FiennesSelf
- Katrina ForresterSelf
- Antony GormleySelf