Denmark, United States, India · 2011
1h 17m
Director Dina Rosenmeier
Starring
Genre Documentary, Drama
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For every person who dedicates their life to a cause, their family makes a collective sacrifice.
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Rosenmeier's tendency to insert herself at the center of the story - awkwardly drifting into the frame as she interviews local social workers, carefully inspecting institutions as if she were a high-profile ambassador - at first seems slightly immodest. Gradually, it suggests a deeply unsettling level of self-involvement.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
(A) stirring, if inconclusive documentary.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
There is also inspiration in watching her find herself by helping others.
Part personal quest, part testimonial and part fund-raiser, A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps fulfills disparate agendas for helmer Dina Rosenmeier, a mildly resentful daughter wondering why her humanitarian mother prioritized orphaned Indian children over her own offspring.
Great achievements don't guarantee great documentary - or, as A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps proves, they don't even secure a mediocre one.