Must Read After My Deat

Director: Morgan Dews

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: February 20, 2009

Duration: 76 minutes

Cast: -

Overview: filmmaker Morgan Dews was very close to his grandmother Allis, but it was not until after his death in 2001, which turned him into an astonishing knowledge of file that had accumulated throughout the 1960s. Surprisingly full of intimate and candid audio recordings detailing her family increasingly turbulent life, the collection also contains hundreds of silent home movies, photographs and written diaries. Using only the materials found, Dews has been a huge family portrait allowing to fly on the wall, access to a family fight in the middle of America to the brink of a spectacular transformation. Must Read After My Death follows Allis, her husband Charley and their four children in Hartford, Connecticut. Charley's work takes him to Australia, four months a year, so the couple purchases Dictaphone tape recorders as a way to stay in contact over Charlie's prolonged absences. A modern woman at least a decade before his time, fighting against conformity Allis - against the conventional roles of wife and mother. She believes that catharsis and recordings, with the cooperation of the family, includes in its everyday existence. When the family goes to psychologists and psychiatrists, their struggles and increases gradually turn darker recordings - even desperate. At the same time, many used Dews family home movies and the seemingly placid, front transmit typically American, as visual counterpoint to the stark and sobering recordings.