PHYLLIS AND HAROLDMust End Thursday!  Final week! Phyllis and Harold is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59-year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verité and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was still alive. Phyllis and Harold delves into the mystery of time passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love. But it is also a loving, funny exposé on the sins of suburbia. Cindy Kleine is a film and video artist whose prolific career began when she was an undergraduate at Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at the legendary (now defunct) MIT Film/Video Section, studying with Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus, and among a legion of future filmmakers in the program, including Ross McElwee, Robb Moss and John Gianvito. In line with her Boston peers, Kleine has developed a central body of documentary work focused on family dramas: camera visits with her grandmother and her sister, and intense exploration of her parents’ 59 years of a dubious, fractured marriage. Additionally, she has gone outside of family for films about odd artists and off-the-wall musicians, and she’s gone inside herself for some deeply personal, poetically framed psychodramas about love lost, spirit gained. dir. Cindy Kleine, 1h25m 
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