'Intimate Stranger' is filmmaker Alan Berliner's cinematic bio of his grandfather Joseph Cassuto, a Palestinian Jew raised in Egypt whose passion for Japan created conflicts in his post-World War II Brooklyn home. As the film evolves, this portrait of one man quickly becomes an investigation into the meaning of family connectedness and individual legacy – the measures of a life lived. In reconciling the conflicting memories of Cassuto's friends and family, 'Intimate Stranger' walks the fine line between sorting the dirty family laundry and polishing the precious family jewel.
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