The New Man
18/11/2016
1h 15m
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Cast
Adam Andrusier
Self
Lisa Appignanesi
Self
Richard Appignanesi
Self
Chloe Aridjis
Self
Geoffrey Baum
Self
Josh Baum
Self
Shirley Baum
Self


John Berger
Self
Anna Colton
Self


Sophie Fiennes
Self
Katrina Forrester
Self


Antony Gormley
Self
Mark Greenfield
Self
Hannah Kuper
Self
Nick Laird
Self
Nikita Lalwani
Self
Darian Leader
Self
Yoni Magid
Self
Hisham Matar
Self


Simon McBurney
Self
Adam Rosenthal
Self


Renata Salecl
Self


David Schneider
Self
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
Self


Danny Shine
Self
Tom Shkolnik
Self


Zadie Smith
Self


Slavoj Žižek
Self
Devorah Baum
Self
Josh Appignanesi
Self
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