Bravely explores the psychic damage inflicted on Jean-Luc by a withholding, then absent parent.
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08/17/02
My Father and I (2002)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:39
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... [More]
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar
Director: Anne Fontaine
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Reviews for My Father and I
How I Killed My Father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts.
09/20/02
What makes How I Killed My Father compelling, besides its terrific performances, is Fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching.
09/19/02
This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain.
12/20/02
Watching these two actors play against each other so intensely, but with restraint, is a treat.
02/27/03
A compelling French psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart.
08/22/02
Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.
12/19/03
Top CriticBouquet gives a performance that is masterly.
09/20/02
Top CriticSad, yet interesting.
12/27/02
Avoiding simplistic psychological 'explanations', The Way I Killed My Father scrutinizes the Oedipal father-son conflict with icy assurance.
08/05/02
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
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
11/22/02
Top CriticExquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue, this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran Bouquet and the chilling but quite human Berling.
10/11/02
The perfect vehicle for Berling and Bouquet, and both are superb.
08/23/02
Fontaine indulges her signature style, creating a carefully measured film -- the kind whose impact slowly sneaks up on its audience and haunts them long after leaving the theatre.
07/02/02
A solid examination of the male midlife crisis.
08/15/02
Top CriticA complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away.
06/14/02
Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.
10/08/02
Top CriticFontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict, inextricably entwined through family history, each seeing himself in the other, neither liking what he sees.
09/12/02
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
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