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Worksheet time: 7mins
Diane first saw Michael perform in...
The Caretakers Daughter
The Condemned of Altona
Oh Toronto
Filamena
Diane died in
1978
1983
1990
1963
Whenever I would meet Diane she would always
be in trouble
be laughing
crying
partying
I think Diane fell in love with
the character I was playing on stage
Michael
Harry
Jeff
Diane was playing the part of
the actress and me as the German officer
the housekeeper
the wife
the gardener
He was centred and inside himself
She was so far outside herself sometimes there was nothing left inside
she was also a private person
she was a woman of secrets
she did not have two faces for the world
Diane was not a private person, she really lacked
guille
tact
subtlety
insight
I don't know if she showed different faces to different people but I did sense she was a
woman of secrets
woman of great openness
woman of gerosity
woman of vitality
Diane was so attracted to his mind but she yearned for more
demonstrable affection from him
communication from him
love from him
commitment
He was a good writer but he didn't
pursue it
use his talent
embrace his gift
harness his skills
In 1978 she came to me and she said I've been offered a part in a play called
Oh Toronto
Filumena
The Caretakers Daughter
The Condemned of Altona
Diane loved parties Michael
solitude
reading
movies
camping
He knew he disappointed her, that he never lived up to her early vision of
Mick and Franz
Harry
love
romance
Who is the non-diegetic narrator?
Harry
Michael
Johnny
Tom
Finish Bon Iver's lyrics
staring at the same old thing day after day
staring at the same old regrets
staring at the same old mistakes that I made
staring at the same old blood and crushed veneer
We've told you it's a documentary but it's
actually an interrogation process
actually a form of humiliation
actually a fiction
actually an inquisition
You see Harry
she never really loved you
she kept all of her loyalties in tact
she was committed to her kids
her heart really belonged to Michael
Harry is a film producer. His film Lies My Father Told me had won
an oscar for best foreign film
an academy award for best foreign film
a golden globe for best foreign film
a logi
You smiled and I saw the
identical cheeky smile
identical flashy blue eyes
identical turned up lips
idenical gummy grin
I don't get the sense that much changed in our family except
that Johnny got married
that Susy had another child
that Joanna changed jobs
that all three daughters got divorced
It does sort of make you alter the way you look at your relationship....a truth like that
kind of makes you see yourself clearly
begets other truths
forces you to be honest
is hard to handle
The process of filming the producer explores the
personal life of Sarah Polley
metanarrative component of the film
producer's relationship with her mother
the technical aspects of film making
Diane Polley died in 1990, when Sarah was
9
8
11
12
The lines from Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood are recited by who? When you are in the middle of a story it
isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a
dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of
shattered glass and splintered wood; like a
house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed
by the icebergs or swept over the rapids,
and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only
afterwards that it becomes anything like
a story at all. When you are telling it, to
yourself or to someone else.
Deirdre
Sarah
Mark
Michael
“My dear Sarah, when you make a documentary about your own discovery of a new father, are you doing so to avoid your own deeper concerns of its real impact on you? Is that why you describe it as a search for the vagaries of (a) and the unreliability of memory, rather than a search for a father?”
Who produced the Golden
Globe winning film, Lies My Father Told Me (1975);
Michael
Victoria
Harry
Johnny
Who says this? First of all, there are the players to an
incident...those who were there and who
were directly affected by it. Then there is
a circle around that of people who were
affected tangentially because of their
relationship to the principal parties. And
then there’s another concentric circle further
out there which basically has heard or been
told by one of the principal players about it,
and all of these may have different narratives.
Harry
Joanna
Anne
Mark
Who says this? ‘Have I totally lost my mind
trying to reconstruct the past from other people’s words?
Trying to form her?’
Deirdre
Jeff
Tom
Sarah
Marie Murphy is....
Diane's primary school friend
Diane's daughter
Harry's wife
Michael's sister
Name the person: she is poised and coy, appearing
somewhat self-conscious at times, perhaps due to her role and reputation in the theatre industry, and is hesitant to reveal what she knows of Diane’s affair (though she does reveal information eventually, and seemingly with some relish). Notably, she describes Diane as an ‘open book’ who lived without guile, which contradicts Deidre’s account of Diane as a highly secretive person.
Victoria
Anne Tait
Deirdre
Marie
