Storyville - Season 21 Episode 16 This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
A profoundly intimate documentary filmed by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews over a period of more than ten years in the life of Morgan's father Geoff and his wonderfully eccentric partner Anna. In an attempt to reconnect with his dad after becoming estranged, Morgan uses the camera as both a facilitator and a filter that enables him to stay close during challenging times. The film follows Geoff and Anna through a financial crisis that sees them losing their home, it captures the challenges of their relationship, and documents the decline in Geoff's health as a result of emphysema and cancer. With the warmth, love and humour that is so often mixed up in family dramas, this is a documentary made from the inside by a film-maker who is used to turning his camera towards other people's families - but never his own. The result is deeply personal, but the themes of a challenging paternal dynamic, a relationship under pressure, and death in the family, are widespread and universal.
First Air Date: Nov 15, 1997
Last Air date: Jun 18, 2024
Season: 28 Season
Episode: 660 Episode
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 27.891
Language: English
Keyword : current affairs
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Notes On Blindness
Life, Animated
Killing For Love
Murder in Italy
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
Last Days of Solitary
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This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
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Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
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Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
The Boy Who Changed America
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My Mother's Lost Children
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