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The Oscar-nominated film follows Fox Rich over
several decades as she fights for her jailed husband Rob,
serving a 60-year sentence for a bank robbery the couple carried
out in the 1990s, to be released from prison in Louisiana.
"I went into the project with the intention of ... extending the
conversation around incarceration from a woman's point of view,
from a family's point of view," Bradley told Reuters in an
interview from California.
"I would say that 'Time' is first and foremost a love story
that's rooted in Fox Rich, the family matriarch who dedicates...
21 years of her life and her family's life to re-uniting her
family."
Following a previous film on the same theme, Bradley began
filming "Time" with Rich and her sons in 2017 with the aim of
releasing a 13-minute short.
On the last day, Rich, who served a three-and-a-half-year
sentence for the robbery, gave her more than 100 hours of her
own footage to use.
The result is old video diaries woven in with recent material,
in which Rich is seen caring for her family over the years
without her husband around.
"I like to think that there isn't anything in the film that
doesn't speak to love and to unity and self-definition," Bradley
said.
"If there is anything that people take away from the film ... I
would ask that it be forgiveness, because I think that
forgiveness is something that everybody can relate to."
Bradley said she believed there was nothing to be gained from
having people behind bars their entire life, and hoped her film
shone a light on the issue.
The film has won several awards including best director for
Bradley in the U.S. documentary category at the Sundance Film
Festival last year. It is in the running for an Oscar for best
documentary feature.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Mike Collett-White)
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