Time Passages

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Time Passages

2025

1h 26m

Documentary

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In the final months of his mother Elaine's late-stage dementia, as a pandemic rages across the globe, filmmaker Kyle Henry time travels via his family archive and his own memories to heal past wounds. Theirs is a large Texan family, but as one of Elaine's primary caregivers, the gay son shares a unique and complicated bond with his mother. Charting his mother's early life and dashed desires through to years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, and tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully reckons with feelings of grief, conflict and loss of control. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies, Henry unearths difficult truths as an act of intergenerational healing that becomes a testament to love, legacy and those things that carry us through life's most challenging times.

Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

01/31/2025

3.5/4

This is an inchoate movie, inevitably so, and heroic for embracing a challenge that it might not be possible to master.

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Alise Chaffins

Movies We Texted About

Jul 11

3.5/5

Time Passages is a touching tribute from a son to his mother. It highlights the complexity of those relationships while also showing the simplicity of the love that parents and children can have for one another.

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Tom Atkinson

Film Threat

Apr 24

8/10

Time Passages is an acquired taste. It forgoes neatness in favour of emotional resonance.

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Christopher Lloyd

The Film Yap

Feb 28

4.5/5

A filmmaker chronicles his mother's descent into Alzheimer's, but along the way offers a sensitive exploration of their relationship and how we reconcile our individual burdens.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

Feb 13

Idealized imagery as generations know it meshes with that which cannot be visualized. Chaos, indeed, reigns, and Henry works to domesticate it. The attempt is as vital and captivating and a traditional, highly polished rendition might have been.

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Philip Bagnall

Loud and Clear Reviews

01/28/2025

3.5/5

Even if Kyle Henry occasionally can’t decide between telling his mother’s story or his own, both are now on the record, and the relationship between them is full of love and care. We can’t ask for much more than that between mother and son.

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Keira C

Aug 6

"Time Passages" is genuinely a beautiful film. Its utilization of archived footage intercut with a playful experimental artistic style makes for a touching and emotional viewing experience. Simultaneously, it presents a nuanced portrait of family as well as a glimpse into the function of memory.

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Baldwin C

Aug 6

Wow. what an engaging film about a tough subject. I have Family and friends with Dementia and this film makes dealing with this not only palatable but oddly enjoyable. I want to help now where as before I didn't want to deal with it. I wish I saw this before my wife's grandmother passed.

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Synopsis

In the final months of his mother Elaine's late-stage dementia, as a pandemic rages across the globe, filmmaker Kyle Henry time travels via his family archive and his own memories to heal past wounds. Theirs is a large Texan family, but as one of Elaine's primary caregivers, the gay son shares a unique and complicated bond with his mother. Charting his mother's early life and dashed desires through to years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, and tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully reckons with feelings of grief, conflict and loss of control. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies, Henry unearths difficult truths as an act of intergenerational healing that becomes a testament to love, legacy and those things that carry us through life's most challenging times.

Director: Kyle Henry
Producer: Jason Wehling
Screenwriter: Kyle Henry
Distributor: New Day Films
Production Co: A.O.K. Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 31, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 26m