#1109: BRADLEY, Garrett: Time (2020)

BRADLEY, Garrett (United States)
Time [2020]
Spine #1109
Blu-ray


What does the weight of time’s passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award–nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years’ worth of Richardson’s own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in Time a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family’s extraordinary efforts to stay whole.

81 minutes
Black and White
5.1 Surround
1:89:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2022

Director

Garrett Bradley was 24 when she directed Time.

The Film

A

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Doreen St. Félix.

Commentary

Featuring director Bradley.

Interview

With the film’s progtagonists, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson.

Conversation

Between Bradley and critic and author Hilton Als.

Alone (2017)

A short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film’s protagnonist, Aloné Watts.

Trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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