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My Father and I (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 41
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus: How I Killed My Father is a penetrating character study of father-son ties.
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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Reviews for My Father and I
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.
Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.
Brilliantly and pitilessly dissects a father-son relationship that has deteriorated beyond dysfunction.
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.
Watching these two actors play against each other so intensely, but with restraint, is a treat.
A chilly, brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness.
This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain.
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.
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
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.
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.
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