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My Father and I (2002)

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Reviews Counted:45

Fresh:40

Rotten:5

Average Rating:7.3/10

Consensus: How I Killed My Father is a penetrating character study of father-son ties.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Aug 23, 2002 Limited

Synopsis: Forty year-old Jean-Luc is a successful gerontologist living in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Versailles with his beautiful wife Isa. On the surface, Jean-Luc appears to have everything one could... Forty year-old Jean-Luc is a successful gerontologist living in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Versailles with his beautiful wife Isa. On the surface, Jean-Luc appears to have everything one could want from life, however the unexpected arrival of his long estranged father (Maurice) promises to shatter Jean-Luc’s facade. A quiet yet lively man, Maurice abandoned his wife and two young sons years ago, without any apparent misgivings, to practice medicine in Africa. Upon his sudden return, Maurice is quick to view his older son’s life and world with a detachment that verges on cruelty, and it isn’t long before he profoundly disrupts the fragile and truly imperfect bourgeois lives of Jean-Luc and those around him. In the face of a father who charms, disgusts and rejects him, Jean-Luc can no longer avoid confronting his own past. Secrets are revealed, and the crisis triggered by his mysterious father will alter things forever... © 2002 New Yorker Films [More]

Starring: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar

Starring: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar, Hubert Kounde, Karole Rocher

Director: Anne Fontaine

Director: Anne Fontaine
Screenwriter: Jacques Fieschi, Anne Fontaine
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne
Composer: Jocelyn Pook
Studio: New Yorker Films

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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Empire Magazine

Vet French actor Michel Bouquet renders such an astounding performance that he elevates Anne Fontaine's family melodrama way above its Freudian foundations and male menopause.

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12/20/06
Emanuel Levy
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01/26/06
Time Out

Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/19/03
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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A bela construção de personagens merece elogios.

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08/26/03
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
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Brilliantly and pitilessly dissects a father-son relationship that has deteriorated beyond dysfunction.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
07/17/03
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
N/R

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05/23/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Whether writer-director Anne Fontaine's film is a ghost story, an account of a nervous breakdown, a trip down memory lane, all three or none of the above, it is as seductive as it is haunting.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
03/20/03
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Watching these two actors play against each other so intensely, but with restraint, is a treat.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
02/27/03
Marta Barber
Marta Barber
Miami Herald

A chilly, brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness.

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01/10/03
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Sad, yet interesting.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
12/27/02
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Trés French, trés fascinating psychodrama.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
12/26/02
Jane Sumner
Jane Sumner
Dallas Morning News
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This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
12/20/02
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

How I Killed My Father would be a rarity in Hollywood. It's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects, but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
12/20/02
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.

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11/22/02
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Cold, nervy and memorable.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
11/21/02
Patrick Z. McGavin
Patrick Z. McGavin
Chicago Tribune
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Trademark American triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent French drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son.

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11/05/02
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
ToxicUniverse.com

The film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome. And it sees those relationships, including that between the son and his wife, and the wife and the father, and between the two brothers, with incredible subtlety and acumen.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/02/02
Richard Nilsen
Richard Nilsen
Arizona Republic
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10/29/02
Greg Muskewitz
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