I can *easily* see why many would see this as boring, especially if you are expecting a documentary similar to "Blood Ties". Blood Ties was directly focused on her "Immediate Family" portraits and the controversy they caused and was very OT. What Remains was filmed by the same director, but is much more of a biography, told by an introspective Sally Mann herself, and is much slower paced.
We meet her children as adults, we hear her tell how she met her husband, we see her visit her mother in her childhood home and reminisce about her father. We see her creative process as she takes several different styles of photographs using different photographic techniques, for example glass plates as was done 150 years ago. The new exhibition she is preparing for is completely different than the work we have seen from her previously, it focuses on death. It was inspired by witnessing a death at the end of a police chase, and encouraged by her thoughts about the mortality of her husband who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy. Some of the photographs are normal, some are macabre.
But I liked this documentary. It sets a mood and paints a portrait of the photographer herself. There are a few minutes of FLM OT content at various points, they refer to "Immediate Family" and show some of the pictures from it and video from Blood Ties. There's relatively little new OT if you've seen Blood Ties (which, incidentally, is included as an extra on the DVD.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483836/
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