FOLLOWING SEAN
Following Sean looks back to San Francisco in the late Sixties, when filmmaker Ralph Arlyck befriended the hippie family living upstairs. Arlycks candid short film about four-year-old Sean, a precocious tot who smokes grass and hangs out with speed freaks, garnered acclaim from verité-era viewers. Young Sean, a natural on camera, proves just as compelling three decades later, when Arlyck catches up with him as an adult let down by the failed promise of a once-thriving counterculture. This fascinating chronicle of growing up and moving on works both as social study and suspense flick: Will Seans pothead past and family dysfunction catch up with his present-day reality as a struggling husband and father? Seamlessly blending archival footage with here-and-now portraits of archetypal «Summer of Love» survivors and bravely exposing his own personal dramas, Arlyck follows Sean all the way to a liberating epiphany: The past is dust. (Steven Jenkins)
- Sean Farrell
- Ralph Arlyck
- Johnny Farrell
- Susie Farrell
- Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck
- Ralph Arlyck
- Ralph Arlyck
- Tom Tucker
- Dan Gleich
- Malcolm Pullinger
- Eric Neveux
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