Documentarian, cinematographer, director: Haskell Wexler’s spent 50 years framing the truth. It’s ironic, then, that Wexler has distanced himself from son Mark’s this-is-my-dad documentary, apparently pissed off by the portrait on show. He should be proud. In pointing the lens back on his octogenarian father, Wexler Jr has lit every face – every wrinkle – of a complex man: driven professional, vigilant activist, forlorn divorcee, phlegmatic father, big-hearted friend, cantankerous bastard...
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