| In
the fall of 2005, two filmmakers invited six men across America
to join them in an experiment. They would stop shaving for six
months. No trimming allowed. Each was provided a video camera
and weekly interview questions to document his own experience.
The resulting 600 hours of intimate footage revealed a group of
men traversing the same rite of passage from disparate vantage
points. Throughout the process, the men told stories from their
pasts, shared likes and dislikes, and confessed personal fears
and aspirations. They laughed and cried, hid and came alive behind
their beards. The tireless taping captured bad days and good ones,
and it is in this framework that the individual stories stand
out and the beards fade into the background. From a son dealing
with his father's descent into Alzheimer's, to financial and marital
struggles, to the birth of a child, THE WINTER OF THE BEARD reveals
the trials and tribulations of what it means to drastically alter
one's appearance and otherwise go on living life.
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