Photographic Memory

In this superb documentary, filmmaker Ross McElwee retraces his teenage trip to France in hopes of better understanding his rebellious adolescent son, and while there he attempts to track down a photographer who once employed him and a girl who stole his heart along the way., Distressed over his teenaged son’s addiction to the Internet and fearful that the developing boy has grown detached from the real world, documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee takes a journey back into his own adolescence by returning to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany, France, which he visited as a teen, and attempting to track down the photographer who gave him his first job, and the girl who once stole his heart.