Kaye has lived most of her life inside the confines of her parents' home due to her lifelong agoraphobia. She pastes old movie stars' portraits alongside those of her deceased family members on the walls of her home in an effort to find solace from her concerns. The result is a kaleidoscopic collage that combines her family's history with Hollywood imagination. A heartbreaking depiction of a lady juggling the competing influences of her mother's bawdy humor and her father's concerns, Portrait of Kaye is told first-person through rambling monologues. She is now 74 and newly widowed, and her obsession with a younger neighbor allows her the chance to embrace previously suppressed sexual and personal freedoms. Former next-door neighbor and music video director Ben Reed has put together a special and moving meditation on family, film, and the meaning of freedom that was shot over the course of two years.
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Kaye has lived most of her life inside the confines of her parents' home due to her lifelong agoraphobia. She pastes old movie stars' portraits alongside those of her deceased family members on the walls of her home in an effort to find solace from her concerns. The result is a kaleidoscopic collage that combines her family's history with Hollywood imagination. A heartbreaking depiction of a lady juggling the competing influences of her mother's bawdy humor and her father's concerns, Portrait of Kaye is told first-person through rambling monologues. She is now 74 and newly widowed, and her obsession with a younger neighbor allows her the chance to embrace previously suppressed sexual and personal freedoms. Former next-door neighbor and music video director Ben Reed has put together a special and moving meditation on family, film, and the meaning of freedom that was shot over the course of two years.
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