Nobody’s Business

A follow-up to Alan Berliner’s previous film Intimate Stranger, this film explores the other half of his familial heritage, the Berliners. The filmmaker takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a biography that finds both humor and pathos in the conflicts and contradictions that bind father and son. Ultimately, this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries of family life are pushed, pulled, stretched, torn and surprisingly, at times, healed.