Family Values

This fresh and innovative short doc offers a quirky portrait of an American family with traditional "family values." Becky and Donna are a nice lesbian couple with a house in the suburbs, who run an unusual family business -- cleaning up death scenes. Director Eva Saks takes us into their world with a great sense of style and humor that makes this one of the most enjoyable short documentaries in recent memory. Family Values played at the Sundance Film festival, won a student Academy Award, and was the juried Grand Prize Winner of the Second Annual PlanetOut.com Short Movie Awards.

What a cleverly made short film. I enjoyed it a lot. Saw it in L.A. and in Copenhagen. It thrilled me to see such a morbid subject dealt with with such a delicacy, humour, straight(!)forwardness and respect. I was captured from beginning to end. The director obviously didn't want to take the easy way by shocking her audience as she could have done easily the matter taken into consideration. She wanted and she wanted us to get to know the two women executing this odd piece of work, and she showed us that the whole concept of "family values" is to be understood in a broader sense.

Thank you for choosing black and white :-)