Ed Pincus had left filmmaking to run a flower farm in Vermont, but a chance encounter with Lucia Small brought him back to documentary, and together they made the 2007 film The Axe in the Attic. Over the years since, they had often talked about making a first-person documentary film from the perspectives of two different people, but it never happened. When Ed is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he and Lucia decide to finally make the movie they’d talked about. With Ed dying and Lucia grieving over the tragic deaths of two close friends, the pair confront their emotions—the fear, grief, and anger that define the experience of loss—and wrestle with others’ requests to put the cameras down, most importantly from Jane, Ed’s wife of fifty years. Remarkably candid and at times openly raw, One Cut, One Life is both upsetting and affirming—as these two people come to terms with mortality, they discover what’s most precious about life.  ST