Snapshots

Performances all around are strong, with Piper Laurie’s Rose taking the lead and directing us through the story’s narrative.

Snapshots nicely shuttles between past and present to tell its affecting, evocative tale of familial and romantic love among several generations of women. But it’s the flashbacks that prove more wholly compelling here, so much so that they could have made for their own standalone film.

Snapshots presents a moving portrait of its central relationship doomed by societal constrictions. The female characters are well-drawn and vibrant, while the men are depicted sympathetically.

Snapshots wallows a little too readily in cliché to be quite as stirring as its story — one drawn from Corran’s own family history — sounds on paper.

This is a sad film but also quite a touching film. I like how it cuts between different times, different generations. There is a poignany about it and its somewhat thoughtful. I'm glad I saw it. It does feature an LGBT storyline, so that may put some off it but I thought it was a good film anyway, so I'd recommend it, yes.