Katrine boorman biography of william

TELLURIDE — Director Katrine Boorman melds two popular documentary genres in her appealing cinematic memoir, Me and Me Dad. The film is at once a very personal family story and a biography of a notable Hollywood personage.

That would be John Boorman, the Oscar-nominated director of such excellent films as Point Blank, Deliverance and Hope and Glory. His daughter’s film provides a telling portrait of the gifted British director as well as a moving chronicle of the pressures of growing up inside a high-profile movie clan.

Katrine admitted in Telluride that she made the film mainly as a way of growing closer to her sometimes distant father, who remarried after divorcing her mother and started a whole new family with his second wife (from whom he is now also separated).

From the opening seconds of the film, we can sense the tensions in the father-daughter relationship. As Katrine sets up a shot with her father, John curtly tells