"I'm interested in the way we tell stories about our lives, about the fact that the truth about the past is often ephemeral and difficult to pin down," actor/director/writer Sarah Polley says at the beginning of the new trailer for her upcoming documentary, "Stories We Tell," and that ain't the half of it. It's a documentary you don't want to know too much about, but suffice to say it's a Polley-led examination of her family's complicated past told by everyone involved, which leads to a kind of amazing "Rashomon" effect. And yes, it's just brilliant and utterly engrossing. It's a film that's so damn good and compelling, it made the top 10 lists of Kevin Jagernauth, Oliver Lyttelton and myself last year (we saw it in advance at various film festivals in 2012 and it opened in Canada; and oh yeah, it was within the top 5 for each of us to be precise). Here's the official synopsis: In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley...
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