A Family Affair

2015 ""

A Family Affair

7.1 | 1h50m | en | Documentary

Tom, the filmmaker, receives a letter from South Africa. His long forgotten 95-year old grandmother Mariann, asks him to come and help her with her will. Tom sets off to South Africa and decides to bring his camera. This starts a journey for the filmmaker and his grandmother, looking back at her life and trying to understand his own.

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Released: November. 19,2015 | Released Producted By: Conijn Film , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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smilingspider-97918 Wow what a piece of work this granny is! From her incest thoughts about her grandson,the way she treated her disabled son and her delusions about her self importance.This woman is just sick and believes she's far more important than anyone else...umm being a model doesn't make you great or important ..ever heard of a doctor or ambulance drivers?.The way she treated her son with mental illness is atrocious going on about her big wonderful house and maybe he can come visit sometimes..Jesus he needs help not a visit.The performance about the grandson having a girlfriend pushed her delusional jealously to the limit.Best part of the film was when she died and made the world a much better place

dawnlscherer I really wish I would have listened to my instincts and turned this off 10 minutes in. The bombshell never comes. Grandma gives up like three unrelated pieces of info in the whole documentary. The summary of this documentary is much more compelling than the actual documentary.

keelygirl2 The grandmother is just the worst. For reasons that are not totally revealed, she jettisons her kids when they are very young and temporarily reclaims them later. She is a total narcissist- and it is bewildering that the universe would allow one who had acted so egregiously to "suck air" for over 90 years. I felt terrible for her grown sons, who decades later are still trying to bravely face the trauma visited on them by their beastly mother. She claims to have been "too young" to face raising children....ok, she then fails to acknowledge that her kindergarten age children were also "too young" to face life without a parent. Caught up in her own self absorbed delusions, Marianne escapes all accountability for a lifetime of grief that she caused her family. The single saving grace of the movie was that the near criminal behavior of the grandmother seems to bring together the surviving males in the family. It is a compelling story but takes a long time to unfold and is never fully explained.

Lionpride505 Don't be fooled by the intriguing premise and the 7.3 rating of this documentary, because you will honestly be disappointed in the end. This documentary strings viewers along believing there are answers to this "family mystery," when in reality it's just a grandson following around his disturbed and incest-driven grandmother whom is hardly interesting. The cast is one dimensional and there is never any clue about the big "mystery" that led to this family's dysfunction. IMO, this is just a bunch of spoiled, upper class, and selfish individuals who tried to be part of an amateur documentary for attention. There are far more interesting documentaries on family tragedy; this one feels unfinished and uninspired.