🎬 Documentary

The Genius and the Opera Singer

2017 1h 7m Dir. Vanessa Stockley

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The Genius and the Opera Singer is an intimate documentary set in a claustrophobic penthouse apartment in New York's West Village where Ruth and her daughter Jessica have shared uneasy quarters for over half a century. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, the film mines the fraught emotional territory of a parental relationship stuck cycling between the past and the present.

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Year
2017
Runtime
1h 7m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Vanessa Stockley
Language
EN
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