SummaryAn Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Directed By:Dónal Foreman
The Image You Missed
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May 6, 2018
83
The Image You Missed exists at multiple levels. It is an archival quest to bring back to life a man’s oeuvre, an attempt to reckon with one’s national identity, and a struggle to make sense of the legacy a father left behind. Each film is a mission impossible, but Foreman’s plays out at depths few others normally venture in.
May 6, 2018
80
The Image You Missed arguably functions most effectively as an impressionistic primer on tumultuous Ulster affairs during and after the Troubles, providing vivid glimpses of a violent epoch whose controversial repercussions continue to periodically reverberate across the British Isles and beyond.
May 29, 2019
75
The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.
May 30, 2019
70
The Image You Missed is less compelling as an act of personal therapy than it is as filmed film criticism, but even if it doesn’t fully cohere, Foreman’s family stake helps keep it original.
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Production Company:
- Arts Council of Ireland
Release Date:May 31, 2019
Duration:1 h 14 m
Awards
Cinéma du Réel
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Nomination
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
