The Oscar documentary shortlist abounds with memorable love stories—between a woman and her incarcerated husband in Time, between a man and a mollusk in My Octopus Teacher, and in Dick Johnson Is Dead, between a daughter and her aging father.Of those three films, Dick Johnson Is Dead qualifies as the most unusual stylistically.
Director Kirsten Johnson, faced with her beloved father’s cognitive decline, conceived various outlandish scenarios in which her dad might die, and then filmed them.“The premise of the movie is that we were going to kill my father over and over again with the help of stunt people until he really died for real.
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