To get to the center of the story of documentary “Father Soldier Son,” about a single dad raising two boys while fighting in Afghanistan, editor Amy Foote locked herself in a bubble for two months poring over 10 years of footage.
Journalists-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis make their feature debut with the doc, now streaming on Netflix. In 2010, Einhorn produced the New York Times documentary short “A Year at War,” in which reporter James Dao follows a regiment of soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan. Among them was single dad Brian Eisch, a platoon sergeant and third-generation soldier. Fascinated by his story, she went to Wisconsin, where Eisch’s sons, 12-year-old Isaac and 7-year-old Joey, had moved when Eisch went off to war, to live with his older brother, Sean. “And that’s how it started,” Einhorn says.
Foote — whose diverse work on documentaries include Staples Singers celebration “Mavis,” History Channel...
Journalists-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis make their feature debut with the doc, now streaming on Netflix. In 2010, Einhorn produced the New York Times documentary short “A Year at War,” in which reporter James Dao follows a regiment of soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan. Among them was single dad Brian Eisch, a platoon sergeant and third-generation soldier. Fascinated by his story, she went to Wisconsin, where Eisch’s sons, 12-year-old Isaac and 7-year-old Joey, had moved when Eisch went off to war, to live with his older brother, Sean. “And that’s how it started,” Einhorn says.
Foote — whose diverse work on documentaries include Staples Singers celebration “Mavis,” History Channel...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In 2009, President Barack Obama deployed 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in what would later be dubbed “the longest war.” The men who sacrificed their lives provide the title for the documentary, “Father, Soldier, Son,” which questions whether leaving one’s family for months or years (or forever) is worth it?
Directors Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn draw from one man’s journey—and, more importantly, interviews with his family—to explain the toll war can take on a military household.
Continue reading ‘Father, Soldier, Son’: A Touching, Devastating Portrait Of Military Life [Review] at The Playlist.
Directors Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn draw from one man’s journey—and, more importantly, interviews with his family—to explain the toll war can take on a military household.
Continue reading ‘Father, Soldier, Son’: A Touching, Devastating Portrait Of Military Life [Review] at The Playlist.
- 7/20/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
Vaclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosinsky’s novel The Painted Bird has been on quite a journey. The film took more than a decade to be made and it premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where it was honored with the Cinema for Unicef Award before debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival. The pic was also Czech Republic’s international Oscar entry for 2019. Now, the black and white drama starring Stella Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Udo Kier hits VOD today.
Shot on 35mm in CinemaScope, The Painted Bird is set in Eastern Europe towards the end of World War II. The story follows the journey of a character referred to as “The Boy,” who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. When the old woman dies, The Boy ventures off on his own, wandering through the countryside. As he struggles for survival,...
Shot on 35mm in CinemaScope, The Painted Bird is set in Eastern Europe towards the end of World War II. The story follows the journey of a character referred to as “The Boy,” who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. When the old woman dies, The Boy ventures off on his own, wandering through the countryside. As he struggles for survival,...
- 7/17/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
A little more than halfway through “Father Soldier Son,” a documentary that follows a military family over the course of a tumultuous decade, former serviceman Brian Eisch takes his sons out for a family night at the movies. And given that this is taking place in the mid 2010s, it’s no surprise that the movie in question in “American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s rousing but problematic portrait of the late U.S. Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle.
That is clearly Eisch’s kind of movie – and in an odd way, it’s not hard to find similarities between “American Sniper” and “Father Soldier Son,” both of them about gung-ho soldiers not prone to introspection and not entirely cognizant of the toll their service takes on those around them.
But Eastwood’s film, of course, was a high-octane war drama that piled on the action; “Father Soldier Son,” a New...
That is clearly Eisch’s kind of movie – and in an odd way, it’s not hard to find similarities between “American Sniper” and “Father Soldier Son,” both of them about gung-ho soldiers not prone to introspection and not entirely cognizant of the toll their service takes on those around them.
But Eastwood’s film, of course, was a high-octane war drama that piled on the action; “Father Soldier Son,” a New...
- 7/15/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
"We're not sure his injuries were worth it all." Netflix has debuted the official trailer for a feature-length documentary film titled Father Soldier Son, made by NY Times reporters / filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis. When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy. The project originally started following a battalion's yearlong deployment in Afghanistan, but it evolved into something much deeper and complex over years. "At once a verité portrait of ordinary people living in the shadow of active duty and a longitudinal survey of the intergenerational cycles of military service, [the film] is a profound and deeply personal exploration of the meaning of sacrifice, purpose, duty and American manhood in the aftermath of war." It's worth a watch. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Davis & Einhorn's doc Father Soldier Son, on Netflix's YouTube...
- 7/2/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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