“It was fascinating and illuminating and exhausting,” Sarah Polley says, sipping iced tea in a Manhattan restaurant. “I wanted to focus on all these voices telling the story in different ways. To me, what was interesting was not the story, but the way you tell it.”

She’s talking about “Stories We Tell,” the personal (and yet universal) tale of Polley’s family, which opened in limited release May 10. The film – Polley’s third as a director – looks at Polley’s family history, focusing on the story of her mother, Diane, who died when Polley was 11. (More…)