“Not only is this show about family history, it’s about American history,” reveals filmmaker Derek Cianfrance about his first television project, HBO’s six-part limited series “I Know This Much Is True.”
By tying a intimate family story of loss and trauma to a wider exploration of American society, Cianfrance says that the series ultimately became a “reckoning of sins from the past and trying to become whole from them, trying to reconcile those sins and move forward. Not to ignore them, or erase them, but to acknowledge them and do better.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Cianfrance above.
See Rosie O’Donnell Interview: ‘I Know This Much is True’
“I Know This Much is True,” adapted from the novel by author Wally Lamb stars Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo as Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, identical twin brothers with a deeply troubled past. Thomas is a paranoid schizophrenic that has...
By tying a intimate family story of loss and trauma to a wider exploration of American society, Cianfrance says that the series ultimately became a “reckoning of sins from the past and trying to become whole from them, trying to reconcile those sins and move forward. Not to ignore them, or erase them, but to acknowledge them and do better.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Cianfrance above.
See Rosie O’Donnell Interview: ‘I Know This Much is True’
“I Know This Much is True,” adapted from the novel by author Wally Lamb stars Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo as Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, identical twin brothers with a deeply troubled past. Thomas is a paranoid schizophrenic that has...
- 6/29/2020
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
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