The Image You Missed

2018

Action / Biography / Documentary / History / War

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 8 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 267 267

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Plot summary

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before footage, 'The Image You Missed' is an experimental essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' with the story of a son's search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

A little scattered, but some fine moments

Fantastic images and videos from the time of the Troubles in Ireland, and a heartfelt personal attempt to connect to a father (Arthur MacCaig) the filmmaker (Dónal Foreman) never really knew, but rather scattered in its presentation. There is something intensely bittersweet about the quest to understand a father who had such an altruistic goal, the liberation of Ireland, as well as talent as a filmmaker himself, and yet also abandoned his son, cutting off all contact when he remarried in Paris. Unfortunately, the father's story and what he captured on film himself was more interesting to me than the son's, e.g. The latter's childhood dabbling with a video camera, or his attempts to film the Occupy Wall Street movement, stuff that should have been edited out entirely. Seeing the generational difference in Ireland and from father to son provided perspective on how things change over the arc of time, but ultimately this was a little too messy to love. The final clip of the adult son's last meeting with his father in Paris and account of their parting give the film a forlorn and strong finish though.
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Reviewed by iainoconnor 8 / 10

A collage of disconnection

I really enjoyed this film. It shows a disconnection between a father and son, a disconnection inherent in Ireland since it's colonisation by the British. A sense of Ireland's soul is refracted through these two filmmakers. A man and his son. A lot is left is unknown as much if not most things in life are more unknowable than any of us would probably care to admit. These are all random events lost in time that even framed as the grand narratives of times and nations will one day be forgotten and lost. Context removed like a father's abandoned films. They document occurrences, fragments of long lives we know nothing of. That's life. Reflective of Ireland and it's people.

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