Don’t you love finding those really small movies? The ones who are incredibly special and don’t need big budgets or movie stars to make them stand out? Well, it looks like we’ve got another one of those on our hands, except this time it appears to be in documentary form. I’m talking about the newest documentary from Rainbow Releasing called PHYLLIS AND HAROLD, whose trailer I just watched.

Check out the trailer and a few production stills after the jump.

For whatever reason, I prefer my documentaries to be either very small and intimate or a broad examination of world issues. This appears to fall into the former category. For whatever reason, the films that stray towards the middle always seem to get lost in the mix. Whatever the case, I’m very excited to catch this documentary. Here’s a synopsis of the movie, courtest of Rainbow Releases:

PHYLLIS AND HAROLD is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59 year old marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family’s home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive. Phyllis and Harold delves into the mystery oftime passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love.  But it is also a loving, funny expose on the sins of suburbia. Imagine Bergman’s SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE seen through the prism of I LOVE LUCY.

Also, here’s a few production stills from the distribution company. These photos give us a great deal of insight as to the tone and the general thematic elements of the film, as they feature several prominent subjects of the documentary.