All Through The Night
2023 · 20m · USA
Directed by Graham Marvin
Genres: drama
Tones: melancholic, tender
On the night before his father, a retired choir conductor with Alzheimer's, moves into a long-term care facility, Neil Kelly is determined to stir his dad's fading memory — and confront his own unresolved feelings — through the power of music.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Dying-dad-with-Alzheimer's-and-a-choir is a guaranteed-cry premise, and it's exactly as engineered as that sounds. Competent, sentimental, completely safe.
Tim Daly as a choir conductor with Alzheimer's promises a respectable performance vehicle, and the autobiographical hook gives it more grounding than most. Decent if conventional emotional terrain.
Choral music as narrative device tied to a director's real experience with his choir-conductor father is the kind of specific autobiographical hook that grounds Alzheimer's drama. 21 min on Klipist; Tim Daly anchoring the cast helps.
Reviews
A heartfelt exploration of a father-son relationship with myriad undercurrents — invoking memory, a fraught relationship with the past, familial dynamics, and their potentially volatile nature.
The film makes the connection between music and memory, not only to support the full narrative arc for the father-son relationship but also to help address the dilemma of how to reconnect with someone living with Alzheimer's.
Festivals
- Sedona International Film Festival 2023
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2023
- New York Shorts International Film Festival 2023
- Boston Short Film Festival 2023, Tarkovski Grant Nominee, Producer's Night Nominee