"Totally absorbing and surprisingly funny."
Laura Kyle - efilmcritic.com
"Rewarding and refreshingly funny to watch."
Nora Ankrum - Austin Chronicle
"Insightful and sometimes painful, Bruce & Me is a very personal video journal."
Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.
"Absorbing first-person doc with commercial
potential, "Bruce & Me" speaks a universal language while
focused on the specifics of a unique father-daughter relationship. Siedler's
efforts to reunite with (or at least comprehend) her unrepentantly roguish
father, a career con man and white-collar criminal, should fascinate anyone
who has ever lunged at the real or perceived chance to make things right
with a distant parent. "Bruce & Me" sustains a satisfying
mix of deadpan humor, heartfelt emotion and wistful amazement as it charts
a circuitous journey toward understanding."
Joe Leydon - Variety
" a pleasantly quirky doc"
Jim Ridley - Nashville Scene
" The legendary Al Maysles, cinematographer for "Gimme Shelter" and
maker of dozens of independent documentary films, was in the audience.
He and I both loved the film, and I raised my hand to tell the director,
Oren Siedler, how much it reminded me of my own mad youth. And then Maysles,
a little white-haired 75-year-old man hugged me. He identified with my
comments. Would that have happened at Sundance?"
Francine Hardaway at IDFA
"Outstandingly excellent!..."
Albert Maysles at International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
" Bruce & Me had moviegoers talking about the conventions and
approaches to documenting one's own experiences"
Eugene Hernandez - Indiewire @ IDFA
“Odd, quirky and sometimes disturbing”
Jim Bawden – The Toronto Star
“Bruce & Me deserves a wider audience than it’s likely
to get on the Life Network… …”a soul-searcher”… “a
toughand tender treatise on the strength of familial ties”
Henrietta Walmark – The Globe & Mail
“Bruce & Me is reminiscent of a 1970’s road picture – like
Five Easy Pieces 25 years later”
Brian Gorman – The Toronto Sun
“filmmaker Oren Siedler has come up with a remarkably candid study
of herself, parts of which will resonate with the inner child that lurks
in us all”
James Wegg – Jamesweggreview.org
“ Funny… Moving…”
The Calgary Herald
" a scintillating film"
Independent Cinema Organization (UK)
" This style of filmmaking is not for the faint-hearted"
Barbara Karpinski - filmmaker, writer
“a delightful, touching film about coming to terms with where we
come from—and how we learn to deal with it"
Nashville Film Festival
“There’s a pervasive sadness here, and it’s captured
in gripping fashion. Highly recommended”
Alan Bostick – The Tennessean
“an adventure well worth taking”
Kim Linekin – Eye Weekly