Coming to theatres this Friday, December 1:
32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE
Director:
Hope Litoff
Premiere:
Hot Docs 2017
Select Festivals:
AFI Docs, Provincetown, Biografilm, San Francisco Jewish, Woodstock, Denver, Cork, Rocky Mountain Women’s, Boston Jewish
About:
A filmmaker confronts her grief over the loss of her sister.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
Years after the suicide of her sister Ruth, a talented but troubled artist, director Hope Litoff tries to make sense of her loss. Renting a studio, Hope begins a meticulous forensic investigation of the belongings Ruth left behind, filling the space with her artwork, diaries, datebooks, and a pharmacy’s worth of prescription-drug bottles. Confronting her grief yields no simple answers and instead threatens to lead Hope on a precarious collision course with her own inner demons.
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