Our conversation with filmmaker Cindy Kleine on her new documentary about the life and marriage of her parents.
By Terry Keefe
In all honesty, Phyllis and Harold is one of the best examinations, fiction or non, of the subject of marriage that I have ever seen. Filmmaker Cindy Kleine started interviewing her elderly parents, Phyllis and Harold Kleine, about their marriage and lives for a project that became first a short film entitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part, which was structured as a series of talking head spots with both parents, and then broadened that project into this larger, more visually expansive feature over a 12-year period. Driving the film is a question Cindy Kleine poses at the beginning about her parents: “Who are these people?”
For starters, Phyllis and Harold are an upper middle class Jewish couple, living in suburban Long Island. They came of age during World War II and they married young,...
By Terry Keefe
In all honesty, Phyllis and Harold is one of the best examinations, fiction or non, of the subject of marriage that I have ever seen. Filmmaker Cindy Kleine started interviewing her elderly parents, Phyllis and Harold Kleine, about their marriage and lives for a project that became first a short film entitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part, which was structured as a series of talking head spots with both parents, and then broadened that project into this larger, more visually expansive feature over a 12-year period. Driving the film is a question Cindy Kleine poses at the beginning about her parents: “Who are these people?”
For starters, Phyllis and Harold are an upper middle class Jewish couple, living in suburban Long Island. They came of age during World War II and they married young,...
- 4/11/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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