Benjamin Cleary said his upcoming film Swan Song originated from his experience of losing three friends and his own existential questions about grief.“When something like that happens, you see the grief emanate out and affect everyone else around you,” Cleary said Sunday during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel at the DGA Theater. “In a way I just started thinking about, ‘What if someone else close to me passes away?
What if I were to pass away? What would happen to my family?'”Swan Song is Stutterer Oscar winner Cleary’s feature directorial debut and follows Ali as a man diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief.‘Swan Song’ Review:
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