And simultaneously, when I was ready to make this film, in my 40s, when my mom and I had talked about it, it was a moment when I was really ready to expand my practice as an artist, and I was really ready to embrace fiction. Some of those scenes are in the film [where Francis Conroy plays the older Mrs. G.].

The story in The Tale, which makes its HBO debut on May 26, belongs to Narberth native and veteran filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who was a seventh grader at Germantown Friends School when she wrote a short story about "two very special people" — a woman that in the film Fox calls "Mrs. G" and a man she calls "Bill" — and about her "beautiful" role in their relationship. The Tale is a powerful and clear-eyed examination of sexual abuse and the shifting sands of one’s own memories. "Don't you think, in retrospect, that people wanted something to happen to him, wanted Laura to confront him?" Beyond that, Jennifer (which is how I’ll refer to Fox’s character in the film) is played by Dern in the present day, and by Isabelle Nélisse as a 13-year-old. As But it becomes harder and harder for Jennifer to justify that argument as she starts to work through her memories, using her skills as a researcher and filmmaker to dig into her own life. "Because of what happened with Weinstein, and the whole change that we're suddenly aware" of sexual abuse, "it's as if … people were ready to have a deeper conversation," Fox said. The truth is, I did care for them, loved them.

… She became a deafness advocate. "She suspected from the time she met Bill, and I'd denied it," Fox said.

You can't just let him get away with that," her mother said. "I didn't know my mom was hearing-impaired until I was 30.

That was almost the end of it," she said. But I had to wait to until she realized that it was abuse.
The documentarian Jennifer Fox’s film, debuting on HBO, interrogates an early sexual relationship and the troublesome power of memory.“The body remembers everything, it really does,” says the imperious riding teacher Mrs. G (Frances Conroy) to her former student Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) as the latter guides a horse around its paddock with ease. It doesn't mean there isn't some damage, I'm not saying that. I mean I know the writer/director lived this; what I mean to say is that rape is often depicted as a throwaway plot device or in a pornographic manner. I also remember feeling like, somebody likes me for the first time." The movie is the director’s first narrative feature, but she interviewed people to inform the project. And after more than 30 years of making documentaries, Fox knew that it still needed to be a work of fiction, even if she wouldn't be framing the story the same way she had as a seventh grader. “No bad horses, only bad riders,” Mrs. G, the riding coach of a thirteen-year-old girl, says. "I got very excited," said Fox's mother, when she found the story while cleaning out closets, and called her daughter in Amsterdam, where she was teaching at the time.

Because I felt like I came to the end of the road on my growth as a documentarian," said Fox, whose credits include Fox's mother, Geraldine Dietz Fox, portrayed in the film by Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, is happy to claim the role of instigator.

I remember what he said to me. "I never confronted him like that because, frankly, my goal was more to understand him, and to keep the dialogue open," said the filmmaker.

"Yes, I'll take full credit," she said with a laugh, of having pushed her daughter to acknowledge what she had long suspected, that there had been something unnatural in the relationship between her young daughter and the man (Jason Ritter) whom she met when he came to pick her up for an overnight visit with Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki), bearing flowers and candy for Jennifer's parents.
'Yes, I think it is.' But the real Bill would talk to me on the phone but … refused to meet me for like two years, and I got really angry, and so I wrote that scene. "But that wasn't the beginning of it.

So I never, ever thought of making this a documentary. There's no evidence.

"I saw what could happen if you came out, if you got away from your being private," her mother said. Laura Dern as the adult Jenny in a scene from Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale.” Jason Ritter as Bill and Isabelle Nélisse as Jenny in “The Tale.” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox (left) and her mother Geraldine Dietz Fox arrive for the Philadelphia premiere of Fox’s new film “The Tale” at the Prince Theater on May 3. It puts me in mind of accounts I've heard from actual survivors. This shows the reality some people face. All Rights Reserved. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2020 by The Atlantic Monthly Group.

"The story you are about to see is true. "I like to think of it as parallel narratives. "Because no one would ever talk.
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And simultaneously, when I was ready to make this film, in my 40s, when my mom and I had talked about it, it was a moment when I was really ready to expand my practice as an artist, and I was really ready to embrace fiction. Some of those scenes are in the film [where Francis Conroy plays the older Mrs. G.].

The story in The Tale, which makes its HBO debut on May 26, belongs to Narberth native and veteran filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who was a seventh grader at Germantown Friends School when she wrote a short story about "two very special people" — a woman that in the film Fox calls "Mrs. G" and a man she calls "Bill" — and about her "beautiful" role in their relationship. The Tale is a powerful and clear-eyed examination of sexual abuse and the shifting sands of one’s own memories. "Don't you think, in retrospect, that people wanted something to happen to him, wanted Laura to confront him?" Beyond that, Jennifer (which is how I’ll refer to Fox’s character in the film) is played by Dern in the present day, and by Isabelle Nélisse as a 13-year-old. As But it becomes harder and harder for Jennifer to justify that argument as she starts to work through her memories, using her skills as a researcher and filmmaker to dig into her own life. "Because of what happened with Weinstein, and the whole change that we're suddenly aware" of sexual abuse, "it's as if … people were ready to have a deeper conversation," Fox said. The truth is, I did care for them, loved them.

… She became a deafness advocate. "She suspected from the time she met Bill, and I'd denied it," Fox said.

You can't just let him get away with that," her mother said. "I didn't know my mom was hearing-impaired until I was 30.

That was almost the end of it," she said. But I had to wait to until she realized that it was abuse.
The documentarian Jennifer Fox’s film, debuting on HBO, interrogates an early sexual relationship and the troublesome power of memory.“The body remembers everything, it really does,” says the imperious riding teacher Mrs. G (Frances Conroy) to her former student Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) as the latter guides a horse around its paddock with ease. It doesn't mean there isn't some damage, I'm not saying that. I mean I know the writer/director lived this; what I mean to say is that rape is often depicted as a throwaway plot device or in a pornographic manner. I also remember feeling like, somebody likes me for the first time." The movie is the director’s first narrative feature, but she interviewed people to inform the project. And after more than 30 years of making documentaries, Fox knew that it still needed to be a work of fiction, even if she wouldn't be framing the story the same way she had as a seventh grader. “No bad horses, only bad riders,” Mrs. G, the riding coach of a thirteen-year-old girl, says. "I got very excited," said Fox's mother, when she found the story while cleaning out closets, and called her daughter in Amsterdam, where she was teaching at the time.

Because I felt like I came to the end of the road on my growth as a documentarian," said Fox, whose credits include Fox's mother, Geraldine Dietz Fox, portrayed in the film by Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, is happy to claim the role of instigator.

I remember what he said to me. "I never confronted him like that because, frankly, my goal was more to understand him, and to keep the dialogue open," said the filmmaker.

"Yes, I'll take full credit," she said with a laugh, of having pushed her daughter to acknowledge what she had long suspected, that there had been something unnatural in the relationship between her young daughter and the man (Jason Ritter) whom she met when he came to pick her up for an overnight visit with Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki), bearing flowers and candy for Jennifer's parents.
'Yes, I think it is.' But the real Bill would talk to me on the phone but … refused to meet me for like two years, and I got really angry, and so I wrote that scene. "But that wasn't the beginning of it.

So I never, ever thought of making this a documentary. There's no evidence.

"I saw what could happen if you came out, if you got away from your being private," her mother said. Laura Dern as the adult Jenny in a scene from Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale.” Jason Ritter as Bill and Isabelle Nélisse as Jenny in “The Tale.” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox (left) and her mother Geraldine Dietz Fox arrive for the Philadelphia premiere of Fox’s new film “The Tale” at the Prince Theater on May 3. It puts me in mind of accounts I've heard from actual survivors. This shows the reality some people face. All Rights Reserved. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2020 by The Atlantic Monthly Group.

"The story you are about to see is true. "I like to think of it as parallel narratives. "Because no one would ever talk.
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who is the real mrs g in the tale


I remember throwing up. Letting people in on her secret "changed her a lot. "The beginning was thinking that she had been abused. And then Mrs. G., the real Mrs. G. died, and then he agreed to meet me because we were reminiscing. We want to hear what you think about this article. "That was about 2007. A celebrated world-class athlete and coach, Bill is an imposing figure with a charismatic sense of purpose. And so when I found the paper, I sent it to her. The younger version of Mrs. G, the woman who taught Jennifer to ride horses, is played by Elizabeth Debicki, and she radiates the kind of magnetism that should be familiar to anyone who has ever idolized a teacher. To echo Mrs. G’s sentiment about horse-riding, Jennifer’s body has remembered things, but it has remembered them wrong—and Handed the tough roles of mentors who shift into monsters, Ritter and Debicki subtly calibrate their performances as necessary, projecting a protective edge in one moment and a predatory one in the next.

And simultaneously, when I was ready to make this film, in my 40s, when my mom and I had talked about it, it was a moment when I was really ready to expand my practice as an artist, and I was really ready to embrace fiction. Some of those scenes are in the film [where Francis Conroy plays the older Mrs. G.].

The story in The Tale, which makes its HBO debut on May 26, belongs to Narberth native and veteran filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who was a seventh grader at Germantown Friends School when she wrote a short story about "two very special people" — a woman that in the film Fox calls "Mrs. G" and a man she calls "Bill" — and about her "beautiful" role in their relationship. The Tale is a powerful and clear-eyed examination of sexual abuse and the shifting sands of one’s own memories. "Don't you think, in retrospect, that people wanted something to happen to him, wanted Laura to confront him?" Beyond that, Jennifer (which is how I’ll refer to Fox’s character in the film) is played by Dern in the present day, and by Isabelle Nélisse as a 13-year-old. As But it becomes harder and harder for Jennifer to justify that argument as she starts to work through her memories, using her skills as a researcher and filmmaker to dig into her own life. "Because of what happened with Weinstein, and the whole change that we're suddenly aware" of sexual abuse, "it's as if … people were ready to have a deeper conversation," Fox said. The truth is, I did care for them, loved them.

… She became a deafness advocate. "She suspected from the time she met Bill, and I'd denied it," Fox said.

You can't just let him get away with that," her mother said. "I didn't know my mom was hearing-impaired until I was 30.

That was almost the end of it," she said. But I had to wait to until she realized that it was abuse.
The documentarian Jennifer Fox’s film, debuting on HBO, interrogates an early sexual relationship and the troublesome power of memory.“The body remembers everything, it really does,” says the imperious riding teacher Mrs. G (Frances Conroy) to her former student Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) as the latter guides a horse around its paddock with ease. It doesn't mean there isn't some damage, I'm not saying that. I mean I know the writer/director lived this; what I mean to say is that rape is often depicted as a throwaway plot device or in a pornographic manner. I also remember feeling like, somebody likes me for the first time." The movie is the director’s first narrative feature, but she interviewed people to inform the project. And after more than 30 years of making documentaries, Fox knew that it still needed to be a work of fiction, even if she wouldn't be framing the story the same way she had as a seventh grader. “No bad horses, only bad riders,” Mrs. G, the riding coach of a thirteen-year-old girl, says. "I got very excited," said Fox's mother, when she found the story while cleaning out closets, and called her daughter in Amsterdam, where she was teaching at the time.

Because I felt like I came to the end of the road on my growth as a documentarian," said Fox, whose credits include Fox's mother, Geraldine Dietz Fox, portrayed in the film by Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn, is happy to claim the role of instigator.

I remember what he said to me. "I never confronted him like that because, frankly, my goal was more to understand him, and to keep the dialogue open," said the filmmaker.

"Yes, I'll take full credit," she said with a laugh, of having pushed her daughter to acknowledge what she had long suspected, that there had been something unnatural in the relationship between her young daughter and the man (Jason Ritter) whom she met when he came to pick her up for an overnight visit with Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki), bearing flowers and candy for Jennifer's parents.
'Yes, I think it is.' But the real Bill would talk to me on the phone but … refused to meet me for like two years, and I got really angry, and so I wrote that scene. "But that wasn't the beginning of it.

So I never, ever thought of making this a documentary. There's no evidence.

"I saw what could happen if you came out, if you got away from your being private," her mother said. Laura Dern as the adult Jenny in a scene from Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale.” Jason Ritter as Bill and Isabelle Nélisse as Jenny in “The Tale.” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox (left) and her mother Geraldine Dietz Fox arrive for the Philadelphia premiere of Fox’s new film “The Tale” at the Prince Theater on May 3. It puts me in mind of accounts I've heard from actual survivors. This shows the reality some people face. All Rights Reserved. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2020 by The Atlantic Monthly Group.

"The story you are about to see is true. "I like to think of it as parallel narratives. "Because no one would ever talk.

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