Directed by Sarah Polley, The Stories We Tell (2012) is a documentary which covers the story - and secrets - of her family. Particularly, the film examines the oftentimes strange and strained relationship between Polley's parents, a relationship which resulted in numerous affairs. Over the course of the film, for example, Polley discovers that her father wasn't, in fact, her father. Instead, her father was the man with whom her mother had an affair. To tell her family’s interesting story, Polley incorporates home videos, interviews with her family, reenactments, and narration.
Ty Burr of The Boston Globe was one of many film critics who loved The Stories We Tell. In his review, he wrote that "Stories We Tell is one of those movies you watch on a screen and replay in your head for days, moving between its many levels of inquiry and touched, always, by Polley's compassion toward her relatives in particular and people in general."
