It’s one of the few life events that each and every one of us has in common, but death remains a taboo topic in Western culture. Clearly hoping to break that trend is acclaimed documentarian Kirsten Johnson (“Cameraperson”), whose Sundance award-winner “Dick Johnson Is Dead” tackles the subject with openness, understanding and no shortage of wit.
Dick Johnson is the director’s father; we meet him as an octogenarian psychiatrist in the process of retiring, leaving his longtime home in Seattle to move in with Kirsten in her one-bedroom New York apartment. Over the course of the film, we get to learn two very important things about Dick: one is that — like his wife and his own mother before him — he is beginning to deal with advancing dementia. The other is that he’s got a great sense of humor, and he’s game for his daughter’s ideas...
Dick Johnson is the director’s father; we meet him as an octogenarian psychiatrist in the process of retiring, leaving his longtime home in Seattle to move in with Kirsten in her one-bedroom New York apartment. Over the course of the film, we get to learn two very important things about Dick: one is that — like his wife and his own mother before him — he is beginning to deal with advancing dementia. The other is that he’s got a great sense of humor, and he’s game for his daughter’s ideas...
- 10/3/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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