Released 27 JANUARY
ANTICIPATION.
Spielberg on Spielberg! Finally! 4
ENJOYMENT.
Movie magic meets a portrait of familial disintegration. 4
IN RETROSPECT.
A sweet but never cloying jaunt down Mr Spielberg’s memory lane. 4
he pandemic seems to have been a period of introspection for some of our most revered filmmakers with the cine-memoir becoming a recurring theme. James, while Richard Linklater’s Houston childhood inspired his Rotoscope feature . Now it’s the turn of Steven Spielberg, who charts his coming-of-age in Arizona and the dissolution of his parents’ marriage as counterpoint to his blossoming relationship with cinema. For a director whose entire career has engaged with the concept of storytelling and mythmaking, it’s fitting he would finally tackle his own life with this same playful perspicuity.
