Take Me Home

social justice cinema blowing all up in your face with its intrusion & clunkiness. a "personal journey" being able to sneak into two big festivals (premiering at Sundance) by pushing the right buttons while being an entirely terrible film on a formal level. instead of…

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LetMeExplain

I talk very little about being the older sibling of a brother with Autism who has high support needs, and as I get older and parents continue to wrinkle and their hair turns gray, and watching Take Me Home, and I think about the morning when I was in middle school when my…

Movie Good or Movie Bad?

For much of Liz Sargent’s “Take Me Home,” a modest, immersive story about marginalization and grief, one is captivated by its quiet approach.  At the outset, for instance, when Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, is taking a shower with her…

Robert Daniels

“The sadness will pass, Anna. I promise”As my first film for Sundance this year, this was a really affective coming of age drama about a woman with disabilities coming to her own and understanding that she needs to do things on her own without people doing it for her, as…

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Sundance Watch #1: this destroyed me in the best way possible! anna sargent, you are a star and it was such a privilege to see you shine!

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A booyah slay performance by Anna Sargent

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Sundance Movie #26 (Online): Director Liz Sargent's first feature stars her sister Anna, also named Anna in the film, in a movie mirroring elements of both their lives. Anna, who has a cognitive disability on-screen and in real life, is cared for by her aging parents…

Dan Murrell

There’s a moment in a supermarket where choosing a loaf of bread feels like an impossible task—too many options, too much pressure—and somehow that tiny situation says everything about Take Me Home. It’s a film built on small, everyday hurdles that quietly turn…

Kim Langvandsbråten