Max Lowe’s new documentary film, “Torn,” is an autobiographical exploration of his family’s experience with tragedy and its aftermath.
. It has almost become a kind of climbing-world folk song, a dark and wondrous mountain myth open to new versions and interpretations. And yet, even for someone familiar with the details and reverberations, the experience of watching “Torn” is emotionally wrenching, and uncommonly intimate. Its earnest and unadorned affirmation of love is a fine bracer, in these sour, suspicious times.
Max, as the eldest, had been more hesitant than his brothers to accept Anker. He’s the only one who didn’t change his surname to Lowe-Anker. The other boys hardly remember their father—to them, he is “Alex,” more legend than man, and Anker is “Dad.” On camera, Max questions his mother about her haste in taking up with Anker , and she offers a piquant declaration of both her love for Anker and her practical considerations for bringing him into the family.
In “Torn,” the family members have been contending with the reverberations for two decades, even if they haven’t worked through it all together. Early on, Max’s brother Isaac says to him, “I’m curious as to why you want to make this film, considering it’s something that we haven’t really explored with just ourselves very much at all.”
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