Fun and thought provoking
Alan Berliner continues to make some of the most quirky, interesting and personal documentaries around,
often bringing a great deal of humor to what could be over-serious material. Here, he examines the meaning
and value of one's own name, and the strange reality that almost all of us share our names, a key part of our
sense of identity, with many others. As part of this exploration, Berliner invites all the "Alan Berliner"s he
can find to a dinner, and ends up with 13 namesakes at one meal, including the French filmmaker Alain Berliner,
who made the much acclaimed "Ma Vie En Rose", which the documentary film-maker got sick of being congratulated
for. This is a fun film, but one that also provokes deeper thought about the meaning of names and identity.
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