The title of the documentary SOME KIND OF LOVE refers to to the unlikely love that exists between the two siblings, Yolanda Sonnabend and her brother Joseph. Despite their constant complaining about each other, Joseph says on camera that he cannot leave her as she cannot live on her own. He takes care of her…
The term “cinematic sleight-of-hand” is something of a misnomer. All cinema is a fake; a collection of still images that pretends to move. But something in Thomas Burstyn’s very personal documentary seems to call out for the term. It’s not that the filmmaker is being willfully duplicitous; just that as Some Kind of Love progresses,…
A documentary by Thomas Burstyn. Ghosts haunt the canopy of any family tree, and here they are so vivid, everyone can still see them. In Some Kind of Love, you can feel Thomas Burstyn’s need to capture them before they’re gone for good. With producing and writing help from his wife, Barbara Sumner-Burstyn, the busy…
Here is a review of Some Kind of Love by Jim Gordon on CTV – Skip to 3:48
