(SPOILERS--DUH!)
I thought it was a creative way of filling the documentary and taking the audience on a journey which made you feel like part of the family.
The documentary shone a spotlight on her free-spirit to a mother, Diane, with insights of her mother told by her children, family, friends and people who knew her. It featured a voice over by her father, who was an actor/writer/creative type.
The documentary followed how their father met their mother and how they fell in love but; as a twist to the audience it took us on a discovery we were not expecting from this insight into family life. Growing up Sarah was part of an inside family joke of who her real father - that was all to real as the audience would soon find out.
Sarah's mother had a brief affair while she was on the road while she was on stage, and to Sarah and the rest if the family's knowledge it was (jokingly) between three men who performed on stage with Sarah's mother. The documentary takes us along as Sarah tries to discover if there is any truth to these light rumors.
We then find out that it is not between the three they expected but another man to much surprise of the family.
What I loved about this documentary was the journey it takes you on while making you feel part of their family; while giving you each person involved's perspective of the series of events, which expanded over 28 years!
I also loved the techniques used in the documentary; which I talked about above, such as the artistic and seamless way she blended home video footage with reinactments that, if you weren't told, you wouldn't notice. I also loved how they showed the set up of the documentary with the equipment, like the microphones, the cameras, lights and the sound booth for ADR for the voice over on screen. It was both techniqual and artistic and showed the audience how a documentary is shot.
It was a new and exciting way to do a documentary and I think that's what kept your attention.
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