Criterion collection #1109

Title from disc label

What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years' worth of Richardson's own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in this film a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family's extraordinary efforts to stay whole

Wide screen

Special features: Audio commentaries; interviews; conversations; Alone (2017), a short documentary; essay by Doren St. Félix

Essay by Doren St. Felix has been removed

Sibil Fox Richardson

Rating: PG-13

DVD, wide screen; Dolby digital 5.1; described video

English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video