As journalist Carol Wall was birthing her first book — dealing with copyedits, planning for publication — she was dying: the cancer she had beaten into remission years earlier was back. She would be gone just a few months after her book debuted, to glowing reviews. Her husband, Dick, a lawyer, had helped her through the pre-pub work while treatment was fogging her brain, and before she died, she told him, “Take care of our book.”
So he did.
For his third feature documentary, filmmaker Phil Wall — Carol and Dick’s son — hit the road with Dick on his 2015 tour across wide swathes of the US to promote Carol’s book, a memoir called Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening. It’s not about gardening. “The garden is a metaphor,” Dick explains to the book lovers who come out to meet him. What it is about is among the things Wall holds...
So he did.
For his third feature documentary, filmmaker Phil Wall — Carol and Dick’s son — hit the road with Dick on his 2015 tour across wide swathes of the US to promote Carol’s book, a memoir called Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening. It’s not about gardening. “The garden is a metaphor,” Dick explains to the book lovers who come out to meet him. What it is about is among the things Wall holds...
- 6/28/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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