Image Charlie and his dad, Greg, in a photo taken by his mother. He saw a way to grapple with deeply complicated personal topics without exploiting his family or tangoing with narcissism. The result is an unconventionally creative nonfiction film in which art both reinforces and transcends its mission — even if most of the creative touches were borne of necessity. “Writing it in the first person was really hindering the process, as it came with the dread that I might have to narrate,” he says. “We wrote it in the third person so I wouldn’t be nervous, got used to it and then liked it.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2019 21:07 UTC