From 1972 to 1975, Alfred Guzzetti documented extensive interviews with generations of his extended family. Divided into three parts, Guzzetti presents these sessions, some sound recordings, others beautifully captured on film, to chart his relatives’ roots and life in the United States. Almost confessional, his family’s perceptions of the past unspool: first arriving from Italy, dating, becoming engaged, being married, having children, working, dreaming of the future, and sacrificing to make ends meet. The interviews are interspersed with home movie footage and imagery that cruises down U.S. city streets, wanders twisting alleyways, and coasts along Italian hillside highways, as if physically entering the maze of his ancestors’ memories. Perhaps most affecting is the interview with his parents, who casually, sometimes confrontationally, recount their history while sitting on the living room sofa. In the depiction of lives made up of treasured everyday moments, this unprecedented autobiographical film is refreshingly personal and tenderly universal.  ST