Mirror

Movies about the self can often become masturbatory exercises that actively work to exclude anyone not intimately familiar with the filmmaker’s life. Thinking back to a poetry class in college, I remember a girl complaining that you had to have read a biography of Sylvia Plath to understand literally anything about her poems because they were so intimately tied in with Plath’s own personal interpretations of particular images (like, you have to know that the man in black in her poems is her ...