My Father and I (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 41 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
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 want from life, however the unexpected arrival of his long estranged father (Maurice)... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar, Hubert Kounde
Director: Anne Fontaine
Screenwriter: Jacques Fieschi, Anne Fontaine
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne
Composer: Jocelyn Pook
Screenwriter: Jacques Fieschi, Anne Fontaine
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne
Composer: Jocelyn Pook
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Reviews
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.
12/20/06 06:10 PM
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01/26/06 03:16 AM
Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.
12/19/03 05:15 PM
Top Critic
Brilliantly and pitilessly dissects a father-son relationship that has deteriorated beyond dysfunction.
07/17/03 07:03 AM
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.
03/20/03 08:27 PM
Watching these two actors play against each other so intensely, but with restraint, is a treat.
02/27/03 08:17 PM
A chilly, brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness.
01/10/03 10:42 AM
Top Critic This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain.
12/20/02 07:18 PM
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.
12/20/02 07:13 PM
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
11/22/02 08:39 AM
Top Critic Top Critic 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.
11/05/02 06:43 AM
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.
11/02/02 08:34 AM
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It's a tour de force, written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear.
10/21/02 08:34 AM
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