Unfinished Sentences explores the life of Mariel Brown's deceased father, Wayne Brown, a prolific West Indian writer. The tumultuous father daughter relationship spans decades, pressed against the background of Trinidad and Tobago's highest point of social unrest, the Black Power Movement.
The film's introduction describes it in three words, 'An exploration, an explanation and a reconciliation'. It appears the intent of the director is to tell her story while finding herself after the death of her father. The film is beautifully crafted with the use of interviews, narration, re-enactments, intertitles, still photography and news clips which reveals a poetic biography of Wayne Brown.
Brown creates a fascinating documentary that strays from the conventional bio-pic, she overwhelmingly involves herself in the story. The impact Wayne had in her life as an important figure, a loving father in her childhood there is an expectation of the film to act as a tribute to his life.
The film's introduction describes it in three words, 'An exploration, an explanation and a reconciliation'. It appears the intent of the director is to tell her story while finding herself after the death of her father. The film is beautifully crafted with the use of interviews, narration, re-enactments, intertitles, still photography and news clips which reveals a poetic biography of Wayne Brown.
Brown creates a fascinating documentary that strays from the conventional bio-pic, she overwhelmingly involves herself in the story. The impact Wayne had in her life as an important figure, a loving father in her childhood there is an expectation of the film to act as a tribute to his life.
