Lights On, the Turin-based world sales company, has made a double swoop on Locarno titles, taking international sales rights to Lucy Kerr’s “Family Portrait” and “Dreaming & Dying” (“Hao Jiu Bu…
, the Turin-based world sales company, has made a double swoop on Locarno titles, taking international sales rights to Lucy Kerr’s “Family Portrait” and “Dreaming & Dying” , written and directed by Singapore’s Nelson Yeo.
The mother disappears; the rest of the family seem reluctant to take the photos; one of the daughters, Katy, sets off to find her. Doing so, the synopsis says, she loses herself and her family. “I have long been fascinated by my mother’s obsession with family Christmas Cards, which represent a lack of conflict. Growing up in the American South, my experience involved navigating pain privately and focusing on cultivating a successful and prosperous image,” Kerr told “In ‘Family Portrait,’ the family disavows collective mourning, and thus, melancholia begins to undermine the film’s supposed ‘reality,’ ultimately leading to a divergence into an alternative psychic realm,” she added.
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