The first - person account of grappling with terminal illness proves to be startlingly fertile ground for cinema when juxtaposed with the other strand of the film, an impressionistic fictionalisation of everyday events like meetings with doctors and friends in which Lili Taylor plays the protagonist. (sensesofcinema.com)
The invited artists are united in their interest in articulating the mixture and involvements of this present fictionalisation in their artistic language. (spinnerei.de)
Two major goals of the film seem to be to faithfully document a crucial moment in history through entertaining fictionalisation and to use Lincoln's involvement as a way of shining some light on the type of person he was. (blog.cinemaautopsy.com)