The best compliment I can give this documentary is that it never once tells you how to feel about what you are watching, in a genre that usually cannot resist doing exactly that.
Shot over three years, following a single family’s attempt to keep a small cinema running in a town most distributors have never heard of, the film has every opportunity to reach for sentimentality. It refuses, almost stubbornly, at every turn.
It refuses sentimentality at every turn it’s offered.
