Dir: Jennifer Fox; Starring: Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn, Common. No cert, 114 mins
Some films are so big that a cinema is the only way to make sense of them. But others have a built-in immensity that can make a television screen fill your entire field of vision. So it is with Jennifer Fox’s The Tale, which arrives on the Sky-owned streaming service NowTV this week after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January: even viewed from the sofa, it makes an IMAX-sized impact.
It is a cine-memoir, billed in an opening voiceover as “true – as far as I know”, in which the seasoned documentary filmmaker reckons with a painful chapter of her early...