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In essence an extension of MY GIRLFRIEND'S WEDDING (Jim McBride’s vérité interview with his then-girlfriend about her pending marriage to someone else) many decades later, the thematically (and titularly) related short companion piece MY SON'S WEDDING TO MY SISTER-IN-LAW allows McBride to take the “diary film” genre and turn it inside-out. Then he inverts it again. - Jonathan Marlow
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