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| Ed Pincus in One Cut, One Life. |
By John Esther
After the notable documentarian Ed Pincus was diagnosed with a terminal illness, compounded by other illnesses, he reunited with collaborator Lucia Small (The Axe in the Attic) to create a final first-person nonfiction film, One Cut, One Life.
Told by two different, but not too different, points of view, along with the sporadic disapproval of Ed's wife, Jane, One Cut, One Life offers a grand finale to one of cinema's most important filmmakers and the wife, friend and filmmaker he left behind.
Shot in nine parts, labeled by a season, plus an epilogue, One Cut, One Life, starts with the diagnoses of Ed and his subsequent medical treatments. As the seasons roll on and the loss of life seems more inevitable, the filmmaking begins to take a toll on everyone involved. Like two intellectuals from different backgrounds, education, gender and geographical cultures, Ed and Small, again, differ on what direction the film should take. Meanwhile, Jane finds the cinematic endeavor an intrusion into the life she has lived with a man for over 50 years.
Ultimately, the narrative of life wins over any objections one of the collaborators may have had, but One Cut, One Life assures us that the deceased collaborator probably could not have wanted it a different way. At any rate, he had no choice. Ultimately, he had to trust his friend and fellow filmmaker.
A bittersweet testimony to documentary filmmaking, collaboration and camaraderie, that trust was not betrayed.
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