It Runs in the Family review – heartfelt tribute from one film-maker to another

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It Runs in the Family review – heartfelt tribute from one film-maker to another

When Victoria Villegas learned how her cousin had fled the Dominican Republic, and was gay like her, she was moved to chart his lifeThere have been experimental, freestyling essay films and memoiristic documentaries around for years, going back to Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil or Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I. But just lately it feels like the sprawling poetic-realist subgenre is flourishing, especially in the sunny uplands of film festivals. Li…