Relative is an intimate and artful character-driven film that explores the complexity of identity, memory, fear and love. When filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith confronts her childhood sexual abuse, she unearths a pervasive history of intergenerational abuse in her seemingly-idyllic family forcing her to make an impossible decision: if she stays silent, the cycle continues, but if she speaks up she risks losing the family she loves.... (Full plot summary below)
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Relative is an intimate and artful character-driven film that explores the complexity of identity, memory, fear and love. When filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith confronts her childhood sexual abuse, she unearths a pervasive history of intergenerational abuse in her seemingly-idyllic family forcing her to make an impossible decision: if she stays silent, the cycle continues, but if she speaks up she risks losing the family she loves.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe gifted writer-director Michael Glover Smith (“Mercury in Retrograde,” “Rendezvous in Chicago”) continues to grow as a filmmaker, as he expertly moves around the pieces on the chessboard over the course of a story told over three days and filled with potentially life-changing confrontations, revelations and realizations. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzBy the time the film eases into its final stretch, it becomes a sub-genre of drama that I call "accidental radio," meaning that even though there are pictures, you might not see them all because you're covering your eyes a lot of the time. |
