My Private Life
Director Jill Daniels
Countries United Kingdom
Duration 63 min
Synopsis
Jill Daniels’ autobiographical documentary explores the lives of her emotionally repressed Jewish parents Barbara and Bertie, who were married and divorced, when homosexuality was illegal and divorce was a stigma to observant Jews.. Moving from house to house, country to country, through divorce, remarriage and physical violence ─ rich one day and broke the next ─ Barbara and Bertie, spend their last days together in a small flat in suburban London. As Daniels’ becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of ‘revelations’ of family secrets, she agrees to go on ‘holiday’ to Spain with Bertie where, he says, he spent the best days of his life.
Jill Daniels’ autobiographical documentary explores the lives of her emotionally repressed Jewish parents Barbara and Bertie, who were married and divorced, when homosexuality was illegal and divorce was a stigma to observant Jews.. Moving from house to house, country to country, through divorce, remarriage and physical violence ─ rich one day and broke the next ─ Barbara and Bertie, spend their last days together in a small flat in suburban London. As Daniels’ becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of ‘revelations’ of family secrets, she agrees to go on ‘holiday’ to Spain with Bertie where, he says, he spent the best days of his life.