Timoner tells his daughter “I’m just waiting to die” when she calls. Timoner, her siblings, nieces and nephews and mother, all talk to and comfort patriarch Eli Timoner as he resolves to make the March of his 92nd year his last one. It’s an idealized depiction of what “death with dignity” can look like in a culture where that’s still a rare gift.
But a line, casually spoken by his rabbi daughter, still packs a gentle jolt.ĭocumentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s latest film - after works on controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe (“Mapplethorpe), gadfly comic Russell Brand (“Brand: A Second Coming”) and the musical era that the Dandy Warhols came out of (“Dig!”) - is a 100 minute home movie, Watching Daddy Die. We’ve had plenty of time, thanks to the many scenes that precede it in “Last Flight Home,” to get used to the idea of how Eli Timoner plans to shake off this mortal coil.
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