Invention

"The film succeeds as much as entertainment as it does on aesthetic and conceptual terms" 

"Stephens and cinematographer Rafael Palacio Illingworth give the world of [this film] an appropriately somber color palette and painterly compositions, sometimes from the distance of a curious observer, to create a mournful tone (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"[It] is committed to finding its own wavelength" 

"Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" 

"The film explores grief as a process that intertwines reality and fantasy while mourning a complicated and estranged parent... Minimalist yet compelling storytelling" 

"The movie powerfully conveys the eerie sense of experiencing history in the present tense" 

"An open-hearted, playful and perceptive film that does achieve its own sort of magic in seeing just how far you can test the boundaries between metafiction and explicit documentary"