How do you start over after life-changing events? Director Lisa Azuelos’ film “I Love America” explores the consequences and rewards surrounding the question. ’America,’ while fictional, represents much of what the filmmaker was experiencing.
Azuelos—like her main character—became an empty nester and dealt with the death of a parent. The combination of stressful events ultimately led the filmmaker to create the project. “I began to write things that were not for a film but in which I talked about myself,” the writer and director said of its origins.
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