That might actually be the reason why this film is so deeply touching. For Claire, Frank and Ginny's daughter and the current Team Principle, who's been on a lifelong mission to prove herself worthy, as a woman and as a second child, of her father's shoes, against the preconceptions of the industry and the jealousy of a family member. For Virginia, his wife, whose story of meeting and living with that man deserves a melodrama of its own but is given us without sugar dusting instead, with all the harsh details mentioned. For Frank, who's been so obsessed with racing that he openly put his family to the second place of his life priorities. If you enjoy reading people's characters, you'll find this film especially delightful, because, on many accounts, it feels like a confession for everyone involved. That Williams family, it's a peculiar one. It's a story of real people, a family, going through several decades of challenges life gives them, having to both overcome the problems coming from outside and deal with the way racing business shapes their lives as a husband, a wife, a daughter and a son. It's not even about a certain man's personal ups and downs, even though those are quite big and dramatic on their own. All I know is that the story this film tells is not simply about a certain racing team's ups and downs. Or maybe that's the spell of Formula 1 working on me after all - even though I'm absolutely not a fan of F1 -, who knows. Maybe that's the secret only the Brits possess, because everybody - and I mean _everybody_ - in this documentary looks as if they are professional actors: handsome, deep and oozing that charm of something really big going around. There's something magical about Williams, both the film and Frank himself. But that's definitely not the film's sole quality. Well, Williams was certainly my first experience of that sort, and that alone merits a high regard for this film.

How often to you come upon a documentary - a kind of film that can't afford to use fiction to draw emotions from - that makes you cry? Especially if you're not prone to crying at movies.

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