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I found myself wanting to do without the fantasy Heaven sequences and some of the other goofy bits, I was getting distracted by the Seattle locations…but really that was me resisting this as much as I could. What’s depicted here without question is one of my greatest fears. By the finale I was powerless and destroyed in the best way.
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Saw this at True/False in March and thought I’d never see a better movie this year. Saw it again and can confirm. Kirsten Johnson is such a special filmmaker. She approaches her father’s “long goodbye” with an intellectual’s sense of how the process and ethics of the documentary form can be interrogated, but she’s got such a generous heart, too. She’s used film to keep her father alive and there’s a magic to that.
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film your loved ones before they’re gone. make your own memories. store them on Netflix. it’s easier to watch something than to recall it. a lovely, joyful documentary — Kore-Eda’s AFTER LIFE here on earth.
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the empathetic docu-fantasies of agnès varda live on through kirsten johnson. attempts to answer the immutable question of how we are supposed to shoulder the burden of knowing that the people we love will die, then accepts that there is no answer. or rather, that acceptance is the answer. there’s a memorial bench at the cemetery by my apartment that reads “LOVE IS LONGER THAN LIFE AND STRONGER THAN DEATH.” it doesn’t get more succinct than that.
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“It would be so easy if loving only gave us the beautiful. But what loving demands is that we face the fear of losing each other. That when it gets messy we hold each other close. And when we can, we defiantly celebrate our brief moments of joy.”
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Can’t currently recall a starker example of tears turning to laughter than when Dick’s friend plays that fucking horn.
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DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA, 2020) 9 At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I saw Kirsten Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON while coincidentally sitting right next to her. As the closing credits rolled, I whispered to her “that was the best film of the festival.” She said “why, thank you” and pressed her cheek against mine. I then immediately left the theater without another word, as I knew going into the film that I’d have to rush to a sports bar immediately to see a friend fight on national TV. That incident is part of my history with that movie, which was my favorite film of 2016 and one of my 10 Best for the whole decade. At the 2020 Sundance…
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I think this struck a chord much deeper than just grieving over a parent and made me appreciate documentary on another level. That scene about her mother and the stairs is specifically something that’ll stick with me till I (and all my loved ones) die. Dick Johnson is a lucky man but Kirsten Johnson is just as lucky to have something like this to hold on to forever. Can’t wait to confuse my mom and film her doing something completely insignificant tomorrow just to have a little something to look back on.
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Kept putting this off because I didn’t feel like I could emotionally handle it right now aaaaaaand I was right.
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JJack 8 月 23, 2026
“I’m no longer your father, I’m your little brother.” you ever just cry through an entire film? well, this one will put you through it. so, so special
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A really tender way to prepare for inevitable. A heartbreaking movie that feels like I’m not supposed to see these scenes. They were made for the family. Truly what “in honor of the memory” means.
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Que coñazo. Coñazo de darnos cuenta que crecemos pero a veces olvidamos que nuestros padres también
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The wrinkles make twice as much surface area, so really it’s an improvement. “I shoot documentary because life is sometimes more interesting than anything we can make up” is what Johnson says, though I’m not sure she proves it here. I believe that Kirsten’s father is very interesting to her, as well as the rest of the cast of characters in her life who briefly appear in the film. But I’m not sure she makes them as interesting to us…
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Going to therapy
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I feel bad for not liking this documentary/project more.
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Um trauma pode ser definido como a consequência de passar por um excesso de estímulos em um tempo insuficiente para sua devida compreensão e assimilação. No entanto, o que vemos nessa obra é precisamente o contrário: já que existe um inevitável turbilhão de estímulos que a morte de um pai provoca, a diretora e filha saca brilhantemente que o caminho era diluir tal turbilhão na elaboração do documentário, o que faz com que haja, artificialmente, tempo suficiente para evitar um…
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Peak documental
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Lost my father w/ dementia recently, and this documentary was so beautiful and painful. Long live my dad 🕊️
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Extraordinary.
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cute
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love, memory, and death are unethical concepts, i claim *sniffs, strips naked, runs around, cries, throws up, collapses, farts, cries* watching this with lenka – who’s both my favorite family member and someone who works with dementia patients – made the watch especially cathartic goddammit
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One of the most imaginative, disturbing, beautiful, and heartbreaking documentaries ever made about life, love, and family.
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In this rather unusual and quite intimate study of death and dying we follow Dick Johnson, a retired clinical psychiatrist who is suffering from dementia, as his is daughter Kirsten Johnson – the film’s director- involves him in a series of rather odd enactments of his impending death, some of which involve violent “accidents” such as falling down a flight of stairs, or being struck in the neck and bleeding out. And in a moving climax she also has him…
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Tackles this notion of cinematic immortality and plunges into it with such simple nuance. The film is both a simulation of death and an attempt to tether down all the loving, funny, kind and caring parts of a man before death takes them away. Watching Dick Johnson slowly give up all his earthly possessions, his practice, his car, his house, and then eventually, his memories, is so gut-wrenchingly somber. The tears only ever exemplified by his can-do attitude and the…
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BBob 7 月 22, 2026
Not “reviewing” this since I didn’t get to watch the whole thing, but I saw the last half of it. Seemed pretty sweet and touching, and like a good story. I may have to come back and watch the whole thing.
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A rich and rewarding documentary that feels like the next stage in the stylistic evolution of Kirsten Johnson.
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I think it’s somewhat fitting that the last film I watched as a teenager is s documentary about death. It’s nice to know that in real life, Dick Johnson is still alive, though. Long Live Dick Johnson, Long Live Avery Cole!
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Jjbelinfante 7 月 21, 2026
A beautiful follow up to Camera Person. It touches on the fragility of life and the fear we all have of eventually losing our birth givers and parents. A masterful use of creative narrativisation keeps things engaging and entertaining and the film somehow manages to preserve raw moments of authenticity alongside the glossy Netflix documentary shtick.
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I feel like this film is extremely unethical but also….I really enjoyed it.
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Je sais pas s’il faut être un peu fucked up pour aimer ça mais moi j’ai adoré en tout cas. ” Que peut on dire quand on perd son meilleur ami et son père ? ” hum get uuuuu girl Bah on lui propose de faire un film où on met en scène sa mort encore et encore (Et c’est hyper fun de faire ça) A la base on le fait peut-être pour en rire , mais au fond c’est surtout pour…
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Este docu te da una hostia de realidad cubierta de confeti, humor y achuchabilidad.
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Absolutely loved this! A film that mixes this fiction based death concept with the inevitable preparations of old age and loss of memory. It was amazing! Very moving
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RRafa Rodríguez 7 月 18, 2026
Sigue siendo un ejemplo perfecto de cómo hablar de la muerte a través de la vida, la ficción y el humor.
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Globalement c’est un film de famille qui a pu se permettre de mettre des efforts dans sa présentation, aussi touchant que trop long. … Il faut vraiment que j’aille voir mes grands parents
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A worthwhile exercise with good insights into death and Alzheimer’s, but I didn’t love the way it was presented. It all felt a bit haphazard. The observational moments were great, but the whimsical slow motion sections and earnest voiceover, to me, really detracted from the overall film and slowed the pacing down considerably without adding much. I was hoping this one would be a little bit more John Wilsony but, it was still a decent and easy watch.
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Magnifique documentaire qui aborde la maladie, la mort, la vieillesse, l’amour, la famille et plein d’autres sujets de façon pure et poétique, trop beau
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Love brings joy and loss, sometimes brief/quick sometimes slow/sudden. We meet a daughter and father who lived thru their mom last years with alzheimers and than passing now the father is having memory issues and is coming to live with the daughter – he has suffered a heart attack before – both know his time is coming soon. We see various deaths acted out from falling off a ladder to an ac falling on his head to an construction accident…
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One quite entertaining documentary that did deserve a nomination for best documentary back then, but probably was discarded by the older voters, but also despite having a quite funny concept, it isn’t much about the funny concept but goes into a way more dramatic approach, which honestly makes it more boring, still quite endearing, I like all the funny segments in it and Dick Johnson is extremely charming.
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This was objectively well made and directed, but I couldn’t help but feel like this was exploitive. Filming his best friend trying to cry in private at the mock funeral, fake neck slashing your father with dementia, and after the stunt he said “this was worse than when I had a heart attack”. This felt like a series of putting your distressed father with dementia through increasingly emotionally difficult situations for film. This film insists upon itself.
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Me pareció un hermoso ejercicio de memoria sí, pero principalmente de futuro. Muy único. Obviamente no podía dejar de pensar en mi abuelo, a quien extraño todos los días de mi vida.
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이렇게 죽음을 이겨보려 하는, 그런 슬픔과 사랑이 있다는 것.
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the beauty of cooking, wether it’s your alive or dead loved one. This flim brought out such a fun and unique concept of filming and holding onto the memories before death
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I cried several times throughout this. However, I might add that this is false marketing. By the end of this movie you realize Dick Johnson, whether if he truly is 6 feet under or not, will ALWAYS be alive because of this movie.
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beautiful
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Unfortunately, something that seems to hit harder with every passing year, especially since the people I’m starting to grow up with are starting to suffer through the same disease as Dick Johnson. It’s pretty hard to describe sometimes how I can feel about this, I definitely do think this is powerful and it is a wholesome message about the means of how far family are willing to go for each other and how far they were due to really hold…
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cute tribute, but tone was all over the place. i also had high expectations
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We should all be celebrating our loved ones like this before they go 🥲 The moments about documenting loved ones if you have the power to do so and why Kirsten Johnson chooses to be a documentarian really resonated with me ❤️
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Who doesn’t dream of staging their own funeral and watching the ceremony…? This film touched me on a very special level because two family members received Alzheimer’s diagnoses in recent weeks. Brutal… the documentary mostly managed to maintain a lighthearted tone, but at the same time, everyone is very aware of how it will all end.
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“For as long as my memory lives the memory of him will be in me”
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Algumas cenas eram extraordinárias, mas algo ficou a faltar e não deixou de parecer um pouco explotative
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This is half beautiful and insightful and half forcing a demented old guy to do invasive sketch comedy
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Cried my damn eyes out!!!! “How sweet it is”
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Best friend heartache and continual chocolate cake consumption. Anyone else struggle with keeping track of those 5 things?
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Rray 6 月 23, 2026
love the ending but maybe this movie isnt my cup of tea for documentary thingy i watched this for cc 2026, and i intentionally picked this movie for the category (even tho i could’ve watched sentimental value, it was an accident, the secret agent, etc) since i feel like i wouldn’t have watched this by myself voluntarily
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This movie was so beautiful, a film where you can truly feel how much love and admiration the director has for her father.
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great! this movie teaches us some really important lessons about life and death in a new and extraordinary way. the way the people in this film view death is truly inspiring! this was really what i needed!! heartwarming, wow!
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Somehow didn’t cry until the last scene. One of the most loving films I’ve ever seen.
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Spaccato di lacrime mannaggia
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What a lovely man 🥹
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AAdam Cuttler 6 月 17, 2026
Daddy daughter goals. *Watched in early afternoon with waffles and vegan chicken. My cousin and cousin-in-law came in during the final six minutes and I think I did a good job of not weeping uncontrollably in their presence.
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Dick Johnson is Dead es una buena manera de prepararse para una perdida dolorosa. Podemos discutir si es ética la realización del documental pero no solo vemos la preparación de la directora de dejar atrás a su padre, sino que vemos al mismo Dick dejando su vida atrás, recordando con nostalgia, pena y orgullo.Es shockeante pero muy real la pena en los ojos de Dick, la pena de estar los suficientemente conciente para saber que te estás perdiendo a ti…
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Love this way of documentary making, and process-outcome-blurring. Going to really sit with this one.
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There’s a special kind of evil to be unemployed and watching a documentary about parents dying while in your childhood home
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hit me super close to home. somehow had me bawling my eyes out and laughing at the same time the middle of the film got a little hard to follow for a bit, but it doesn’t take away from how incredible the film is as a whole.
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Paints a decent enough portrait of its subject but is so surface-level, strange, and even invasive that it is not very fun to watch
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Me pareció que toda película está en una línea muy delgada entre la necesidad de sublimar nuestra propia historia, y esa otra orilla muy cercana de caer en el sensacionalismo. Me parece interesante también pensar si el sensacionalismo no siempre viene del abordaje de otros, sino también de nosotros mismos. Esa necesidad urgente de documentar absolutamente todo, incluso los momentos reales más catastróficos … quedó algo para la intimidad de esa familia? Se busca inconscientemente cierto refugio en la empatía del espectador? Es otra forma de no quedarnos solos ensimismados con nuestra propia historia?
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A heartfelt Valentine to her father who’s just been diagnosed with Alzheimers, director Kirsten Johnson tries to get past her impending grief by helping her dad stage his own death. Over and over. Sounds bizarre but her subject is so affable and good-natured, it’s actually a really helpful grieving process – while someone is still alive.
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kinda sad and ironic, isn’t it? a wonderful father and a wonderful daughter, and yet…
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My grandmother passed a few months ago after a long battle with dementia. She was unrecognizable in the last few years as the disease stripped her of so much as the long goodbye unravelled. This documentary shoulders this sardonic humour in what I envision to be an attempt of gaining control as the obvious next stages transpire. The acting out death scenarios scenes lost its punch around half way through but you see it for what it is – a…
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We can’t control death. We can’t control sickness. We can’t negotiate with fate, and we certainly can’t force life to follow our beliefs. We live close to death, & it has always been a part of us, as humans are mortal beings. Throughout the film, it felt like all an honest conversation between a daughter and her father. You can’t help but smile at a dad who always want to support his daughter, and a daughter who wants to preserve every…
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DJID secara gamblang adalah dokumenter komedi yg dibuat Kirsten (si anak) untuk memparodikan kematian ayahnya, Richard “Dick” Johnson, in thousand ways. Mulai dari ketimpa AC sampe kecolok paku. Tapi, sepanjang film ini jalan, ini bukan lagi ttg komedi kematian lagi. Dokumenter ini berubah jadi semacam cara Kirsten menghibur dirinya sendiri dari kenyataan bahwa ayahnya tak bisa tinggal selamanya dan suatu hari pergi meninggalkannya. Bagi gw, ini adalah love letter anak untuk ayah dalam bentuk sinema. Jadi pengingat buat gw, kalo ada masanya kita harus merelakan, karena ga ada yg abadi di dunia ini Long Live, Dick Johnson
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I love watching a documentary that subverts my expectations and surprises me. That ending was magical.
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“What loving demands is that we face the fear of losing each other.” Someone get me a slice of chocolate cake… like right now.
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Defiantly celebrate every moment of joy no matter how brief.
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happy biiiirthday c richard johnsoooon
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At its best when it really lingers, steady on a mug, a set of stairs, or C. Richard Johnson as he takes a long look at his house before moving across the country to live with his daughter, Dick Johnson is Dead is a touching, albeit at times excessive, exercise in a deliberate recreation or preservation of memory that may otherwise me tarnished by the realities of the human mind. I’ve watched a lot of movies this year that deal…
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Face, velvet, church, red and gosh dang it.
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heavy stuff that struck pretty deep. didn’t feel cathartic, it’s all still really terrifying to me, lol. i hope it did for the johnsons.
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I’m so obsessed with Kirsten Johnson’s storytelling
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Soul crushingly real for me right now. Handled with care and empathy, especially for audiences going through something similar like me.
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he’s still alive?!
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A wholly unique experiment. Not one that I would do, nor am I sure that it’s all that successful, but certainly a unique lens with which to confront your grief!
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i’ve always loved the idea of cheating death through art. dick johnson is now immortal and this film can never be un-made; his soul will forever inhabit our screens and wherever tf netflix stores the data for their films.
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“It would be so easy if loving only gave us the beautiful, but what loving demands is that we face the fear of losing each other.” Long live everyone whom I’ve ever loved!
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This ruined me
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Goddamn, it sucks getting old.
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Llucialaresp 5 月 20, 2026
El luto es un proceso durísimo, afrontarlo con humor y este nivel de gracia es un logro admirable. Este docu es divertido, conmovedor, tierno y aveces hasta ridículo. Es un tributo al amor y el vínculo padre-hija muy lindo. Hubo momentos que me sacaron un poco del foco, pero la disfruté mucho. ❤️🩹
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made me very uncomfortable at times for all the wrong reasons, but everything else is really just magical documentary filmmaking. Dick Johnson, what a guy. also what a name! Dick Johnson. wow.
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A fun way to deal with grief
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Apesar de pitadas de breguice (as cenas no “céu”), mau gosto (será que os pais dela realmente gostariam de ficar imortalizados justo na fase de suas vidas em que estão definhando? Parece que Dick aceitaria qualquer roubada que sua filha decidisse colocá-lo, será que ela devia?) e narcisismo (o irmão e os pais dos filhos dela praticamente não tem voz nem vez no documentário), tem muito amor envolvido nesse filme que aborda uma situação pessoal facilmente relacionável já que uma das poucas certezas da vida é seu fim. P.S. Review original no filmow na época do lançamento.
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fuck u kirsten
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masterclass. i picked this up at the library this morning (not realizing its a netflix original, which is also wild!!) and was planning to let it sit while i get thru some others i’ve picked up lately. but then i was reading up on ira sachs and learned that he co-parents with kirsten johnson and it felt sort of irresistible to try this one out. it floored me. both for its empathy and heart, and for its ability to wield “The Documentary” to its ultimate potential: to capture. to hold something in frame, to eternalize. dick johnson is dead, yes, but long live, dick johnson!!!!
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Dick Johnson is a national treasure, however this feels somewhat off and questionable ethically given his mental state. Despite that, it’s clearly made with love
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I felt the slow grieving
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Svo hjartnæm, svo einlæg❤️
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Whimsical, funny, and very sad. That mix didn’t quite work for me, and I struggled to connect with the film, but it was ambitious and skillfully made.
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“Chocolate ice cream… life is good!”
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Ccharlotte 5 月 15, 2026
not sure what’s real anymore
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deveria vir com aviso de risco de desidratação 😭
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A maximalist and moving reflection on how to face one’s own death and the death of those closest to us
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Celebrar a vida, celebrando a morte. Que abraço quentinho. A Kirsten Johnson merece tudo de bom.
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The best Q&A ever with Kirsten Johnson!! What is documentary if not (ir)reverent 💜
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Kirsten Johnson documents her fathers life and illness over a couple years to immortalise him, in-between the moments of great weight and emotion we are alleviated with hope, love and (dark) humour. It dances with the concept of the taboo, crossing lines with a maximalist approach. I knew what I was getting into, but it still overwhelmed me greatly. We also got to have a conversation with the director, it was a pleasure to hear first hand what she gained from this experience.
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Revisto com Q&A com a Kirsten! I got to ask her a question!!! Ele ainda está vivo! Que experiência maravilhosa. Ver um dos meus “quase” documentários favoritos e poder discutir limites do documentário, care with your subject… com o realizador é simplesmente delicioso!!!! I’m in heaven
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this movie felt so personal and intimate, the camera was so close to her dad so that made it very moving. we had kirsten in the screening of the movie and she was fantastic, i even got to talk with her privately and she was so kind omg. bless the johnson family!!
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Rrosanamadalina 5 月 7, 2026
Brb, gonna hug my ninety year old grandparents
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We are all very fortunate that Kirsten Johnson created this and shared it with us.
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Amo a mi papá amo a mi mamá, amo a la mayoría de mis familiares, amo a mucha gente y por lo mismo uno de mis mayores miedos es la pérdida de esas personas, peor aún si las pierdo antes de su muerte, es importante tener recuerdos bien grabados de ellos, incluso si están haciendo una cosa irrelevante como tender ropa, lavar platos, caminando o sentados sin hacer nada, grabalos o algo así, lo agradecerás cuando ya no estén y…
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Memento mori. Years after her mother dies of Alzheimer’s, documentarian Kirsten Johnson learns that her father has also been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. To help them both process their grief, she stages and films him dying in a variety of different ways. On the one hand, I wish this focused less on the process of making the death scenes and more on the conversations about grief and mortality. On the other hand, she made the film she needed to make and it certainly succeeded in making me reflective and emotional.
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Als er zo een prachtige relatie met mijn ouders mij te wachten staat, kijk ik er minder tegenop om ouder te worden. De ongecensureerde openheid van hun gesprekken, zijn stralende persoonlijkheid en het genie van de maakster, 100% would recommend.
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11th Criterion of the year.
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the thing that makes life so precious is that it’s finite. me and all my homies are going to make a movie before we die.
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사랑하는 당신의 끝을 대하는 가장 애틋하고 흐뭇한 방식, 그래도 슬프겠지만 지금은 웃어 보는 거야 . . . . . 앞당겨 체험할 수 없는 것을 구태여 상상하며 체험하려 해 본다 한들 자꾸 끼어드는 한숨과 눈물은 어찌할 수 없다. 그건 이 영화를 만드는 커스틴 존슨과 그의 아버지 딕 존슨, 그리고 영화를 제작하는 모두가 알았을 거다. 하지만, 그럼에도 커스틴 존슨은, 딕 존슨은 영화를 만드는 것을 멈추지 않았다. “아주 상상은 아니지. 어느 정도는 현실이잖아. 우린 모두 죽으니까.“ 이 말을 달리 표현하자면 이 영화는 어느…
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Some people do really cool things. Kirsten Johnson is one of those people. Dick Johnson is Dead is one of those things.
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Added this to my 2026 watchlist because it’s on the Letterboxd Documentary list and after I heard Josh Larsen rank it in his top 25 for the first 25 years of the century. I appreciated all the grounded stuff a lot, and this made me think of my father’s passing last year. The conceit of the faked deaths and the visions of heaven didn’t work as well for me and left me just wanting more of the quieter reflection between…
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Criterion Challenge 2026: 2020s My dad just turned 80 this year. I think my dad is as close to being a Korean version of Dick Johnson as we can get, minus the dementia and being widowed. Very sweet, intimately personal, and poignant. I really enjoyed how it was just a bit different from your typical documentary. Criterion Challenge progress: 20/52
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This “inventive portrait,” as the blurb calls it, creates a genre: take a person you love you don’t want to die and stage scenes of their death using props, sets, and stunt doubles. Kirsten Johnson’s production team referenced Harold and Maude. I can see the resemblance. As of the date I’m composing this, Dick Johnson is alive, around 92 y.o., and living in a memory-assistance home in the Northeast near his son. Kirsten visits once a month and he remembers who she is.
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remember how thunderbolts* had that title scene where it changed the title to the new avengers? this shouldve had one where it changed to long live dick johnson
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As a card carrying member of the Dead Dad Club, this one hit me. What a beautiful portrait of a man’s life and his connection to his family and friends. So much of this was a wonderful look at life and death and how we cope with both. Criterion Challenge 2026: 2020s or an upcoming release
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Never have I ever laughed so hard while sobbing. Kirsten Johnson is so special.
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wow do i love kirsten johnson & how she pieces together these docs. (i need to start filming everyone i love NOW!)
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Jjaysimps 4 月 22, 2026
started pretty kooky and thought it would be a fun watch but then the tone kinda shifts haphazardly and, as some details were revealed and as his conditioned worsened, idk it felt really exploitative
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spent a lot of this film tilting my head so the tears in my eyes couldn’t fall. lovely
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Cutie grandpa pookie patootie
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Lives between the liminal space of the finality of death and the anguish before stuff that comes with old age finally coalesces; I am constantly thinking about my 80-year-old dad so this was a pretttttty tough watch
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Nothing like a documentary that makes reality feel optional.
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Whimsical, gorgeous and ephemeral; real and fanciful and full of heart… long live Dick Johnson!
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this is such an awesome concept for a documentary. its another high concept film that netflix made thst they do t make anymore. this is really interesting way to examination of what happens to someone in their later years. this is such a personal film for me because my grandmother had dementia and i remember when her memory was deteriorating in real. just like dick. my last memory of my gran was when i last saw her in 2021, when…
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D
This was incredibly beautiful, brave and deeply heartbreaking. It left me reflecting on how fragile memory and the present truly are. I can’t imagine the pain of leaving behind who you are, the things that fulfill you, and the faces behind the people you once loved. Also, the immense emotional labor of letting go of someone you love who will never recognize you again. “It would be so easy if loving only gave us the beautiful, but what loving demands is that we face the fear of losing each other.”
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D
I watched this for class and cried
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S
Controversial opinions about this film. I like the premise and understand what the director was going for, but the execution of the film left an uncomfortable and almost dirty taste in my mouth.
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L
🙂 This is a top five for me. I am a big fan of documentary’s and fictional stories which can take very human and often sad theme and circumstance but approach it with humility and positivity. The comedic elements of the doc don’t make light of the sad realities but just make it so much easier digest 🙂 There are several stylised scenes in the doc which are super entertaining and make you love even when you feel you shouldn’t…
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CCarl Patterson 10 月 10, 2020
Well it was certainly different. I knew the premise from reading the blurb on Netflix. Sort of a mix between archive footage, current footage and flights of fantasy. The whole time I was thinking that this was by Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock from the Sun, but it’s Kirsten Johnson. I still enjoyed it.
- Synopsis
- With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
- Director
- Kirsten Johnson
- Writer
- Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson
- Studio
- Big Mouth Productions
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2020
- Runtime
- 89 mins
- USA23 Jan 2020
- Romania23 Jan 2020
- USA02 Oct 2020
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