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Kit Vincent | 2023 | 94 MINS
UK
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Faced with a terminal diagnosis, a filmmaker enlists his family on an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness.

In Detail

When he was 24, film-maker Kit Vincent was diagnosed with a brain tumour; doctors said that he could expect to live four to eight years.

In this documentary that walks the line between humour and grief, Vincent hangs out with his parents (who divorced when he was a teenager), all of them falling into deep, soul-searching conversations that most of us spend a lifetime avoiding having with family. Lawrence (Kit’s father) has found ways of dealing with what’s happening – he has converted to Judaism, started painting and turns the spare room into a farm to grow medicinal cannabis. This is a very good film by a very talented filmmaker exploring the rarely documented nuances of living with a terminal illness.

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