Polemic Crisis: Cohen Turns Camera On His Fam
Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital effects artist, first time feature director Shawney Cohen decided to return to his Jewish roost to help out with the family owned strip joint and motel in times of turmoil. It seems his parents, a life long couple who now seem to share nothing in common except an incendiary relationship with food, are now slaves to their sustenance. Presently 400 pounds, his kingpin father can do little but delegate from behind his desk, while his mother, only a mere 85 pounds, can barely stomach more than a few bites in a sitting. Within Cohen’s deeply personal, thematically complex docu debut, The Manor, their contradictory comestible issues turn out to be deeply seeded in the dirty business they’ve built their lavish lives upon.
Long before the...
Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital effects artist, first time feature director Shawney Cohen decided to return to his Jewish roost to help out with the family owned strip joint and motel in times of turmoil. It seems his parents, a life long couple who now seem to share nothing in common except an incendiary relationship with food, are now slaves to their sustenance. Presently 400 pounds, his kingpin father can do little but delegate from behind his desk, while his mother, only a mere 85 pounds, can barely stomach more than a few bites in a sitting. Within Cohen’s deeply personal, thematically complex docu debut, The Manor, their contradictory comestible issues turn out to be deeply seeded in the dirty business they’ve built their lavish lives upon.
Long before the...
- 4/25/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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