
A journey through a disastrous 59-year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite, and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive.... (Full plot summary below)
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A journey through a disastrous 59-year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite, and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive.
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| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyVery funny, and surprisingly touching, Phyllis and Harold finds romance and poetry out there in Long Island -- accomplishments indeed. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerA portrait of a marriage that epitomizes "lives of quiet desperation." |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisPhyllis and Harold is really about Phyllis and how discontent has a way of spilling, then spreading. Kleine never quite says so, but her mother’s life was a tragedy. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasTwelve years in the making, Phyllis and Harold has extraordinary breadth and depth and has been made with wit, compassion and imagination, and it reflects the complexity of life itself. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonEverything you wanted to know about a marriage and probably a few things you could have done without. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThere's a broad range of deeply personal knowledge refracted through Cindy Kleine's lens that encompasses generational shifts of perspective. "Phyllis and Harold" is a bold and audacious winner. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA creative and unsettling documentary that reveals how yearning can be both a burden and a blessing to those caught in its grasp. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanWhy someone would want to lay bare their parents' marital issues for the world to see is beyond me, but that doesn't detract from the film's insightfulness. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereThe film is well done. But it is a late arrival in a decade-long parade of dysfunctional-family indie films. |
| Time OutS. James SnyderKleine forgoes good-old-days nostalgia in an effort to examine a generation that braved the new America sans a rule book. But it’s the central mystery of Cindy’s own life--did Phyllis ever love Harold?--that turns this sociological examination into something profoundly personal. |