Penny Lane, a filmmaker of playfully adventurous nonfiction work, turns the camera on herself as she decides to donate a kidney to a stranger. But why? Why not?
When documentary filmmaker Penny Lane chose to donate a kidney to a stranger — the dramatic crux of her new “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” — one can’t help but wonder whether the movie idea came first or the altruistic impulse.
In one of her on-screen confessionals, Lane, with surgery a week away, admits that her anxiety and hopelessness are hitting all-time highs. But we also hear how emboldened she is by the lifesaving logic of it all, that she’s participating in humankind at its humankindest. And yet, as her dive into the procedure’s history shows, resistance has been baked into transplant surgery since the beginning.
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