Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 12:47 am
I wanted to recommend a documentary I had the pleasure to watch last night on DVD: My Architect: A Son's Journey. From the official film synopsis: "My Architect is a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness -- in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father." The documentary is about Louis Kahn, an esteemed American architect who died suddenly and alone in the early 1970s in a bathroom at Penn Station in NY -- and who, it turns out, actually had three separate "families." While I am certainly no student of architecture, anyone with a rudimentary interest or understanding of it -- or even of the sometimes-skewed brilliance of artists -- will appreciate this film. Many of architecture's biggest (living) names are interviewed. The film is also an intriguing tale of a son's search for some sort of "truth" about his father. There is one scene in particular near the end of the film, in Bangladesh, that just blew me away in its honesty and poignancy. Here is a link to Rotten Tomatoes' review page. You can see it was very highly reviewed. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_architect_a_sons_journey/ It might be hard to find since it's a documentary, but I recommend it if you can find it.
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