Kingdom of Us

8/9/2026

This is a curious film to watch as it depicts the struggles of a large family having to deal with the extended aftermath of their father's suicide. Told using a continuous array of professionally filmed video-diary style observations of these six sisters and one brother, we are exposed to just how mother Vikie has coped and brought up what appear to be a remarkably well adjusted family. They live a large rural home surrounded by a seemingly endless supply of memorabilia and home movies; drawings and letters and that very preponderance of content allows each of them to comment on just how they remember their dad - for those of them who actually do - some more sympathetically than others, as well as to interact with each other. It's maybe this that started to have me scratching my forehead,